Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophical Writings

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Admired by philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Freud, Benjamin, and Wittgenstein, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) is known to the English-speaking world mostly as a satirist. An eminent experimental physicist and mathematician, Lichtenberg was knowledgeable about the philosophical views of his time, and interested in uncovering the philosophical commitments that underlie our common beliefs. In his notebooks (which he called his Waste Books) he often reflects on, challenges, and critiques these philosophical commitments and the dominant views of the Enlightenment, German idealism, and British empiricism. This scholarly collection of Lichtenberg's philosophical aphorisms contains hundreds of trenchant observations drawn from these notebooks, many of which have been translated into English here for the first time. It also includes a historical and philosophical introduction to his writings, situating him in the history of philosophy and ideas, and is supplemented with a chronology, suggestions for further reading, and extensive introductory and textual notes explaining his references.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438441986
• Artikelnr.: 60535572

Autorenporträt

Steven Tester is a joint PhD candidate in philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin and in German at Northwestern University..