UID:
almafu_9959246004702883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 207 p. )
ISBN:
1-4619-0773-X
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1-4384-4198-3
Series Statement:
SUNY series in contemporary Continental philosophy
Uniform Title:
Sudelbücher. Selections.
Content:
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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Front Matter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Chronology --
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Note on the Edition, Text, and Translation --
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Introduction --
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Philosophical Writings Selected from the Waste Books --
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Notebook A --
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Κέρας Ἀμαλθείας --
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Notebook B --
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Notebook C --
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Notebook D --
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Notebook E --
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Notebook F --
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Notebook G --
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Notebook H --
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Golden Notebook --
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Notebook J --
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Notebook K --
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Notebook L --
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Notes --
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Further Reading --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-4196-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4384-4197-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
