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Catalyst of Enlightenment: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Catalyst of Enlightenment: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Productive Criticism of Eighteenth-Century Germany

Hardback (01 May 1990)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Lessing's work, in a lifetime increasingly dedicated to advancing the German Enlightenment, is presented against the background of social and cultural division, political fragmentation, controversy, anti-semitism, religious intolerance and intermittent war. A system of priorities is shown to underpin his various activities. Concern for mankind and for the right to speak and think freely characterizes his work as practical man of the theatre and dramatist, literary critic and polemicist, productive thinker, defender of the defenceless, publicist of contentious religious issues and relentless seeker of truth.

Book information

ISBN: 9783261041937
Publisher: Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen
Imprint: Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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Language: English
Number of pages: 436
Weight: 650g
Height: 160mm
Width: 225mm
Spine width: 26mm