Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg [EPUB ebook] 
Philosophical Writings

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

Acknowledgments



Chronology



Note on the Edition, Text, and Translation



Introduction



PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS SELECTED FROM THE WASTE BOOKS



Notebook A: 1765–1770



Kέρας ’Aμαλθείας: 1765–1772



Notebook B: 1768–1771



Notebook C: 1772–1773



Notebook D: 1773–1775



Notebook E: 1775–1776



Notebook F: 1776–1779



Notebook G: 1779–1783



Notebook H: 1784–1788



Golden Notebook: Winter 1789



Notebook J: 1789–1793



Notebook K: 1793–1796



Notebook L: 1796–1799



Notes

Further Reading

Index

Circa l’autore

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