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A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history, the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) contributed in decisive and lasting fashion to literature, philosophy, theology, criticism, and drama theory. Lessing invented the brgerliches Trauerspiel (bourgeois tragedy) and wrote one of the first successful German tragedies as well as one of the finest German comedies. In his final dramatic masterpiece, Nathan der Weise, he writes of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, of religious tolerance and intolerance and the clash of civilizations. Lessing's dramas are the oldest German theater pieces still regularly performed (both in Germany and internationally), and...

Lessing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Lessing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1878
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Lessing Yearbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 410

Lessing Yearbook

The Lessing Yearbook, the official publication of the Lessing Society, is a valuable source of information on German culture, literature, and thought of the eighteenth century. Articles are in German or English. Essays in this volume explore a wide variety of subjects pertaining to class and gender, identity formation, and art in Lessing's work, as well as Lessing's philosphy on music and poetry.

The Lessing Yearbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

The Lessing Yearbook

The Lessing Yearbook, the official publication of the Lessing Society, is a valuable source of information on German culture, literature, and thought of the eighteenth century. Articles are in German or English.

Enlightenment and Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Enlightenment and Community

In an age when it has become fashionable to dismiss the Enlightenment as a sinister movement based on instrumental rationality, Benjamin Redekop delves deeper to understand the movement on its own terms. In Enlightenment and Community he shows that the E

Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment

On the basis of intensive study of the entire corpus of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings as well as the extensive secondary literature, the author leads the reader into the systematic core of Lessing's highly elusive religious thought.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 749

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

"Sets [Lessing's] life and work in the context of the intellectual, social, and cultural background of eighteenth-century Europe."--Provided by publisher.

Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Mechanical Sound
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Mechanical Sound

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Tracing efforts to control unwanted sound--the noise of industry, city traffic, gramophones and radios, and aircraft--from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.

Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 315

Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

Published in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook merits fresh theoretical, geopolitical, autobiographical, and aesthetic approaches. Prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, the twelve essays collected in this volume provide fresh analyses along with appreciative memoirs for 21st century readers of this well-known masterpiece.