Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

The Waste Books (New York Review Books Classics)
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 The Waste Books (New York Review Books Classics)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0940322501
Release Date: 2000-09-30

Book Description

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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5 out of 5 stars A philosopher with esprit ..........2005-08-20

"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery." This is a cynic notation considering the fate of the Red Indians. "A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments..." sounds like George W. Bush - but is written down by Professor (not Condoleezza Rice), by Professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799. He has been a philosopher, but his writing-style was more comfortable to any reader, than the work of the other German genius of that time: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Lichtenberg loved the ideas of the French Enlightenment and he tried to explain the ideas of empiric science with humor. He was critical against Christian dogmatics. He once shortly noted: "An Amen face." Or longer: "Nothing offers me such clear proof of how things stand in the world of learning than the circumstance that Spinoza was for so long regarded as an evil, worthless person and his opinions as dangerous." Lichtenberg has been a philosopher - but writing with esprit. If you can tolerate his bile, buy his book: "Who has two pairs of trousers turn one of them into cash and purchase this book." But bear in mind: "A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, - an apostle is unlikely to look out!"

5 out of 5 stars A philosopher with esprit ..........2005-08-20

"The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery." This is a cynic notation considering the fate of the Red Indians. "A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments..." sounds like George W. Bush - but is written down by Professor (not Condoleezza Rice), by Professor Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799. He has been a philosopher, but his writing-style was more comfortable to any reader, than the work of the other German genius of that time: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). Lichtenberg loved t Atlas de la terrariophilie, volume 1 : Les Serpents

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Werke in einem Band. Aphorismen, Briefe, Aufsätze, Essays
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    		Werke in einem Band. Aphorismen, Briefe, Aufsätze, Essays
    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    Manufacturer: Hoffmann und Campe
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    ASIN: B000EBGMNY
    Aphorismen.
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      Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , and Max. Rychner
      Manufacturer: Manesse-Verlag
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      ASIN: 3717512544
      APHORISMEN, BRIEFE UND SCHRIFTEN.
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        		APHORISMEN, BRIEFE UND SCHRIFTEN.
        Georg Christoph. Lichtenberg
        Manufacturer: Scienta-Verlag Zurich
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        ASIN: B000LRA2EG
        Aforismos
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          		Aforismos
          Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
          Manufacturer: Longseller
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          Pfennigs- Wahrheiten.
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            Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , and Rainer. Baasner
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            ASIN: 3423126817

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            6. Lindquist, Mark
            7. Lins, Osman
            8. Lipton, Douglas
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