Lessing: Philosophical and Theological Writings
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Edited and translated by H. B. NisbetFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-03-21
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (172981), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on Christianity led to fundamental changes in Protestant theology. This volume presents the most comprehensive collection to date in English of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings, several of which are here translated for the first time. They are edited and translated by H. B. Nisbet, who also provides an introduction that sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | vii | ||||
| Chronology | viii | ||||
| Further reading | xi | ||||
| Note on texts and translations | xiii | ||||
| Introduction | 1 | (22) | |||
| Philosophical and theological writings | 23 | (87) | |||
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95 | (15) | |||
| 10 A parable (1778) | 110 | (10) | |||
| 11 Axioms (1778) | 120 | (28) | |||
| 12 New hypothesis on the evangelists as merely human historians (1778) | 148 | (24) | |||
| 13 Necessary answer to a very unnecessary question of Herr Hauptpastor Goeze of Hamburg (1778) | 172 | (6) | |||
| 14 The religion of Christ (1780) | 178 | (2) | |||
| 15 That more than five senses are possible for human beings (c. 1780) | 180 | (4) | |||
| 16 Ernst and Falk: dialogues for Freemasons (1778-80) | 184 | (33) | |||
| 17 The education of the human race (1777-80) | 217 | (24) | |||
| 18 [Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Recollections of conversations with Lessing in July and August 1780 (1785)] | 241 | (16) | |||
| Index | 257 |
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