Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Philosophical Writings (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) - Hardcover

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438441975 ISBN 13: 9781438441979

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2012

Synopsis

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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Review:

"This is a great project by an extremely knowledgeable translator. Tester does a fine job making the case for Lichtenberg and explaining his thinking." -- Carl Niekerk, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1438441975
• ISBN 13: 9781438441979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 223