Lessing: Philosophical and Theological Writings

Name: Lessing: Philosophical and Theological Writings
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Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN: 9780521831208

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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282 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
14.3 x 22.1 x 2.2 cm

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), 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.