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 ...
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Acknowledgments
Chronology
Note on the Edition, Text, and Translation
Introduction
PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS SELECTED FROM THE WASTE BOOKS
Notebook A: 1765–177...
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Steven Tester is a joint Ph D candidate in philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin and in German at Northwestern University..