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Connecting Lessing scholars. │ Presented by Lessing Akademie (🇩🇪) and Lessing Society (🇺🇸). │ Organized by @HannesKerber and Thomas Martinec. Joined January 2023-
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I’d never tell people to join the Lessing Society just because I designed the new website, but I also would never discourage people from joining purely on that basis. lessingsociety.org
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🚨 Next #LessingWorkshop 🚨 On Monday, September 29 (noon ET bzw. 18 Uhr dt. Zeit), Emir Kayahan will speak with Cord Berghahn about #Lessing and his engagement with the Andalusian philosophical tradition, particularly #IbnTufayl. Join us! Register now: bccte.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Lessing ging zum Studium an die Universität Leipzig und immatrikulierte sich am 20. September 1746. Er studierte zunächst Theologie, verlor jedoch bald das Interesse daran und begann sich mit Poesie und Theater zu beschäftigen.
@islamdusunceatl Paylaşımlarının zamanlamasının birbirine uymasından hareketle (kendi adıma) reklam gibi anlaşılmaması umuduyla: İbn Tufeyl'in -- Lessing ve Mendelssohn şahıslarında -- geç Alman Aydınlanmasındaki yankısını çok yakında göstermek istiyorum! x.com/LessingWorksho…
@islamdusunceatl Paylaşımlarının zamanlamasının birbirine uymasından hareketle (kendi adıma) reklam gibi anlaşılmaması umuduyla: İbn Tufeyl'in -- Lessing ve Mendelssohn şahıslarında -- geç Alman Aydınlanmasındaki yankısını çok yakında göstermek istiyorum! x.com/LessingWorksho…
😍😍😍 "the most philosophic mind of modern Europe, G.E. Lessing" (Leo Strauss)
😍😍😍 "the most philosophic mind of modern Europe, G.E. Lessing" (Leo Strauss)
“For precisely the reasons for which people continued to talk of Spinoza as of a dead dog in the 18th century, Spinoza became the idol of the reaction to the 18th century spirit, which determined the German movement of the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.…
Friedrich Schlegel an August Mahlmann, 9. September 1803, über den bevorstehenden Druck der drei Bände von 𝘓𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯
"Die Aufklärung wurde von Eliten instrumentalisiert, doch in ihren Anfängen verkörperte sie eine subversive Haltung. Das zeigt ein Blick auf Lessing, einen der namhaftesten Vertreter jenes Zeitalters, das wir 'die Aufklärung' nennen." @lea_ypi 💟 blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/s…
Mein Vortrag über Moses #Mendelssohn und den #Universalismus von der Europäischen Sommeruniversität in Hohenems kann nun auf dem Museumskanal nachgehört werden: youtu.be/q-yxef7PNiI?si…
#OTD in 1729 wurde Moses Mendelssohn geboren. In seinem letzten Brief an Mendelssohn bittet Lessing seinen Freund um die Beschreibung des "kürzesten sichersten Weges nach dem europäischen Lande, wo es weder Christen noch Juden gibt“. Das Porträt 👇 stammt von Anton Graff.
🥳 Just released in Italian! "Leo Strauss, La dottrina essoterica: Saggi su Lessing," edited by me, is now available from @EdizioniETS. edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9…
🥳 Just released in Italian! "Leo Strauss, La dottrina essoterica: Saggi su Lessing," edited by me, is now available from @EdizioniETS. edizioniets.com/scheda.asp?n=9…
@FunkeBooks In January, I bought from Mark Funke @FunkeBooks.bsky.social @FunkeBooks the early theatrical writings of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Rare item, masterfully catalogued, lovingly packaged--with pencil One of the nicest as well as best rare book dealers! Give him a follow 2/2
Leo Strauss: “no wise man will be a right-wing Tory or a left-wing Whig.” (“Notes on Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, in Leo Strauss on Religion, p. 12)

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