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- Lessing employed a highly flexible, multidimensional, dialectical mode of thought. For him, thinking meant searching; the anti-dogmatic idea that no fixed truth exists (except with God) served him as guide. As a result, regardless of Lessing's sphere of activity, he vigorously put everything into question.
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (/ ˈ l ɛ s ɪ ŋ /, German: [ˈɡɔthɔlt ˈʔeːfʁa.ɪm ˈlɛsɪŋ] ⓘ; 22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781) was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment era.
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Lessing's approach to the drama was based on his conviction that it was urgently necessary to break the tyrannical dominance over German literature exerted by the established French classicism—a trend that was encouraged by Frederick II of Prussia. In Lessing's eyes, the effect of this French influence was the suppression of the native German geniu...
Lessing inherited from his father strong scholarly and historical interests. By temperament antipathetic to all partisan historiography, he published a series of Rettungen(Vindications) in 1754, in which he defended historical figures to whom ecclesiastical historians, for dogmatic reasons, had not been quite fair. These essays are quite characteri...
Several fragmentary notes found among Lessing's papers, and published in 1784 by his brother Karl in Theologischen Nachlass, disclose the extent of Leibniz's influence. Lessing's interest was always most deeply aroused by Leibniz's references to theology and ethics. One of these pieces, written by Lessing about 1753, "Das Christentum der Vernunft" ...
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Selected Prose Works. Translated by E. C. Beasley and Helen Zimmern. London, 1879. Gesammelte Werke. 23 vols., edited by Karl Lachmann and Franz Muncker. 1886–1924. Werke, edited by Julius Petersen and W. von Olshausen. Berlin, 1925–1935. Hamburgischen Dramaturgie, edited by G. Waterhouse. Cambridge, U.K., 1926. Lessings Gesammelte Werke. 10 vols., edited by Paul Rilla. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1954–1958. Laocoön. Translated by E. A. McCormick. New York, 1962.
works on lessing
Aner, K. Die Theologie der Lessingzeit. Halle: Niemeyer, 1929. Bernstein, J. M., ed. Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics. New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2003. Cassirer, Ernst. Die Philosophie der Aufklärung. Tübingen: Mohr, 1932. Translated by F. C. A. Koelln and J. P. Pettegrove as The Philosophy of the Enlightenment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress, 1951. Chadwick, Henry. Lessing's Theological Writings. Palo Alto, CA, 1956. Goetschel, Willi. Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssoh...
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German dramatist, critic, and writer on philosophy and aesthetics. He helped free German drama from the influence of classical and French models and wrote plays of lasting importance. His critical essays greatly stimulated German letters and combated conservative.
Apr 28, 2017 · Lessing employed a highly flexible, multidimensional, dialectical mode of thought. For him, thinking meant searching; the anti-dogmatic idea that no fixed truth exists (except with God) served him as guide.
LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM ° (1729–1781), German dramatist, philosopher, and critic. One of the outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment in Germany, Lessing was devoted to the principle of toleration.
Dec 16, 2023 · Focusing on tragedy rather than comedy, Lessing develops a “socratic” theory of drama evolving around moral education through theatrical experience.
Apr 28, 2017 · With the Jews gone, Lessing has become a curiously absent presence in Germany, just as the Jews once had been. Against those critics who consider Lessing as a liability of an obsolete canon, others maintain the signal importance of Lessing as a rare champion of tolerance and freedom of thought.
