Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim (1729–81). German poet, dramatist, and religious essayist who influenced theological and philosophical discussion both within Germany and beyond. He helped to arrange publication of some controversial essays by Hermann Samuel Reimarus (the
Wolfenbüttel Fragments, 1774–8) in which then-novel methods of criticism were employed to undermine traditional aspects of Jewish and Christian scripture. Lessing's own religious views were broadly
deistic. He advocated complete toleration in matters religious in his play
Nathan the Wise, a work modelled loosely on his close friend Moses
Mendelssohn.
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Le Philosophique chez Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: individu et verite.(Lessing im Reinkarnationsdiskurs: Eine Untersuchung zu Kontext and Wirkung von G. E. Lessings Texten zur Seelenwanderung)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Le Philosophique chez Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: individu et verite. By CHARLOTTE...ISBN 978-3-447-05188-0. Lessing im Reinkarnationsdiskurs: Eine...significance of all major areas of Lessing's activity under such headings...
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Lessing, critique de Corneille : de Rodogune a la theorie de la catharsis.(HUITIEME SEANCE: CORNEILLE EN EUROPE (suite))(l'Examen de Rodogune de Pierre Corneille par Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Magazine article from: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...vers 1760. Elle a pour coryphee Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, pour circonstance declenchante...de caractere theorique. (3) Lessing y poursuit son combat en s'appuyant...des la deuxieme livraison, Lessing rejette radicalement le drame...
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The boundaries of Mitleidsdramaturgie: some clarifications concerning lessing's concept of 'mitleid'.(Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...juxtaposition of pity and empathy reveals that Lessing draws on the former to explain tragedy...passion vs. reason helps to identify Lessing's sensualist ethics. A closer look at his interpretation of Aristotle points to Lessing's non-Aristotelian ideas. Finally...
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Lessing, Voltaire, and the Jews.(Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Magazine article from: Midstream; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...German writer has the prestige of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as the true leader and exemplar...philosophes of the generation preceding Lessing's, including, particularly, Voltaire, whom Lessing translated, admired, and severely...
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A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Magazine article from: Goethe Yearbook; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2005. xviii +410 pp. Even if Lessing probably would have preferred...summarize the state of the research on Lessing's life, works, and influence...
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A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Ed. by BARBARA FISCHER and...English-language Companion to Lessing's works will be highly appreciated...Enlightenment and Weimar Classicism, Lessing was one of the most original...
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Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment: Lessing on Christianity and Reason.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...This clear and thorough study of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81) approaches him as...Toshimasa Yasukata demonstrates how Lessing rejected the irrationality of...of enlightened philosophers. Lessing's project was to develop revealed...
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LESSING IS MORE
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 10/12/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the 1772 tragedy of playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing unrecognizable. But the director...His moody and liquid staging of Lessing's work pares away the clutter...He lets us feel the velocity of Lessing's indomitable machine of a play...
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Lessing's tale of tolerance unites
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/18/2002; ; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 Headline: Lessing's tale of tolerance unites Byline...18th-century German philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing' s famous play about religious...an office in Berlin. We took Lessing's ideas about tolerance into...
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Political bodies and bodies politic: cultural identity and the actor in G. E. Lessing's Hamburg Dramaturgy.
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...literary critic and playwright Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was invited to...theatre poet." From 1767 to 1769, Lessing wrote essays for the Hamburgische...the Hamburg Nationaltheater and Lessing's Hamburg Dramaturgy, one must...
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing The German philosopher, dramatist, and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was one of the...Storm and Stress, movement. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the son of a parson, was born...
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (1729 – 1781), German dramatist, critic, theologian, and most prominent proponent of the German Enlightenment. A son of the city's chief Lutheran pastor, Lessing was born...
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Lessing, Karl Friedrich
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Lessing, Karl Friedrich (1808–...German painter, the great-nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . In 1826 he settled in Dü...and religious repression of the day. Lessing also painted landscapes. In 1858 he...
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Frederick William II (Prussia) (1744–1797; Ruled 1786–1797)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Berlin. Rahel Levin and Henriette Herz, both Jewish Berliners, hosted two of the most popular salons, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan the Wise, which encouraged religious toleration, was first performed in 1799. Women may not...
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Heinrich Hirsch Graetz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...training. At the same time he taught himself Latin and French and read Euclid, the French and Latin classics, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Mendelssohn, J. C. F. von Schiller, and Heinrich Heine. His religious faith was soon shaken. Then one...
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