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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Philosophical Writings

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Philosophical Writings

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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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State University of New York Press

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1438441983

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9781438441986

Hogarth on High Life

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Hogarth on High Life

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

For the first time in more than 35 years, this edition of the Commentaries on Hogarth s Marriage a la Mode series brings one of the most entertaining and perceptive art texts of the 18th century back in print. Lichtenberg, a genial Anglophile, physicist, andcolleague of Goethe, brought all the scabrous and mordant detail of Hogarth s masterpieces to life. The brilliant translation by Arthur Wensinger is accompanied by an introduction and thorough notes, and by two other important early texts: Rouquet s commentaries, which were authorized by Hogarth, and a hudibrastic verse explanation published in 1746. The very full illustration includes the Riephenhausen engravings from which Lichtenberg worked, Hogarth s own engravings, and extensive details.

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1843680270

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Philosophical Writings

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The Waste Books

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The Waste Books

By: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions. Lichtenberg's Waste Books have been greatly admired by writers as very different as Tolstoy, Einstein, and Andre Breton, while Nietzsche and Wittgenstein acknowledged them as a significant inspiration for their own radical work in philosophy. The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.

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New York Review of Books

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0940322501

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9780940322509

Hegel: Faith and Knowledge

An English translation of G. W. F. Hegel's Glauben und Wissen

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Hegel: Faith and Knowledge

An English translation of G. W. F. Hegel's Glauben und Wissen

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion and the truths of philosophy and science. Hegel is guided by his understanding of the historical situation: the individual alienated from God, nature, and community; and he is influenced by the new philosophy of Schelling, the Spinozistic Philosophy of Identity with its superb vision of the inner unity of God, nature, and rational man. Through a brilliant discussion of the philosophies of Kant, Fichte, and other luminaries of the period, Hegel shows that the time has finally come to give philosophy the authentic shape it has always been trying to reach, a shape in which philosophy's old conflicts with religion on the one hand and with the sciences on the other are suspended once for all. This is the first English translation of this important essay. Professor H. S. Harris offers a historical and analytic commentary to the text and Professor Cerf offers an introduction to the general reader which focuses on the concept of intellectual intuition and on the difference between authentic and inauthentic philosophy.

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SUNY Press

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087395338X

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9780873953382

Hegel

The Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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The Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this work in an intelligible and accurate new translation, alongside a detailed commentary that explains Hegel's arguments and the philosophical issues they raise

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Oxford University Press

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0198790627

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Walther Nernst: Pioneer Of Physics, And Of Chemistry

By: Hans-georg Bartel,Rudolf P Huebener

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Walther Nernst: Pioneer Of Physics, And Of Chemistry

By: Hans-georg Bartel,Rudolf P Huebener

More than 100 years ago, in 1905, Walther Nernst discovered the Third Law of Thermodynamics, thus completing this fundamental theory. In 1920 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The book describes the life of this pioneer of science, his major stations being Graz, then Göttingen, and finally Berlin. Also presented is a lively account of the development of low temperature physics by Nernst during the early days of quantum theory, when he was in Berlin, closely associated with Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Max von Laue.The book outlines the specific advances achieved by Nernst in the thermodynamic concepts of theoretical chemistry. Written for a general readership, it can also serve as a supplement for courses in physics and chemistry. In addition to the role of science in the life of Nernst, the impact of the political turmoil in Germany before and after the advent of the 20th century is also told.

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409

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World Scientific

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9814479055

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9789814479059

Geflügelte Worte

By: Georg Büchmann

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Geflügelte Worte

By: Georg Büchmann

Reproduction of the original: Geflügelte Worte by Georg Büchmann

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3732675920

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9783732675920

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

By: Georg Knepler

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Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

By: Georg Knepler

Described in Germany as the 'most thought-provoking' book of the bicentennial year, Georg Knepler's acclaimed study of Mozart is now available in paperback. The book explores Mozart's life and works from many new perspectives, providing fresh insights into his music and the tempestuous times through which he lived. Based on a close reading of the family correspondence and a careful consideration of Mozart's entire musical output, the book sheds new light on the composer's creative psyche, his political leanings, his relation to the thoughts and currents of the Enlightenment, and the underlying basis of his musical expression.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521588235

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9780521588232

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