Lessing’s Theological Writings
Lessing’s Theological Writings

Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780804703352

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"Though starting from a deist standpoint, Lessing raised the questions that have dominated theology up to our own time...Progressive revelation, historical inevitability, the relation between natural and supernatural, or between faith and historical events--all these issues were foreseen by Lessing. The volume contains nine of his short treatises, all provocative" -- The Times Literary Supplement.

Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment
Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment

Author: Toshimasa Yasukata

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0195144945

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On the basis of intensive study of the entire corpus of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings as well as the extensive secondary literature, the author leads the reader into the systematic core of Lessing's highly elusive religious thought.

Lessing Yearbook Index to Volumes I-XX and the Supplements
Lessing Yearbook Index to Volumes I-XX and the Supplements

Author: Edward Dvoretzky

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780814325216

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This volume is a register and bibliography to the first 20 volumes of the Lessing Yearbook and its supplements, Humanitaet und Dialog, Lessing in heutiger Sicht, Nation und Gelehrtenrepublik, and Lessing und die Toleranz.

Absent Mothers and Orphaned Fathers
Absent Mothers and Orphaned Fathers

Author: Susan E. Gustafson

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780814325032

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Gustafson provides a comprehensive overview of Lessing's comments on the structure and purpose of the domestic tragedy within the context of his Laokoon essay, demonstrating that the fundamental psychic-deep structures informing his aesthetic and dramatic production are male narcissism and the abjection of the woman/the mother. As opposed to earlier studies of gender/generic questions in Lessing's dramas, this analysis explicates the theoretical basis for the rigid codification of gender which informs Lessing's fictional symbolic order.