Catalyst of Enlightenment: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Protective Criticism of Eighteenth-Century Germany - Couverture rigide

Batley, Edward M.

 
9783261041937: Catalyst of Enlightenment: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Protective Criticism of Eighteenth-Century Germany
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3261041935 ISBN 13 : 9783261041937
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 1990

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.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3261041935
ISBN 13 
9783261041937
Reliure
Tapa dura
Nombre de pages
436
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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