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"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834)
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ZIN Product Number: 10404555
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 Format: Paperback, 235 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322501
Release Date: Jan 10, 2000
| |  | | | In Brief
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. Here, displaying an unflagging intelligence of society, examines a range of philosophical questions, from the problem of free will to the nature of knowledge, tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions. Lichtenbergıs The 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. a fundamental document of the Enlightenment a 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in 1742 in Oberramstadt, Germany. In 1763 he joined the University of Gottingen where he studied mathematics and the natural sciences and, in 1770 was appointed a professor at the university. In addition to his scientific writings, he wrote Letters from England and a book on Hogarthıs etchings. Lichtenberg died in 1799.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Written by a German polymath, this brilliant collection of philosophical and psychological aphorisms recalls works by La Rochefoucauld and Chamfort. It was admired by Tolstoy and Einstein, and cited as an influence by Nietzsche and Wittgenstein
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Among the great achievements of the German spirit. —Gordon Craig
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General, Aphorisms and apothegms, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Literary Collections, Essays, Philosophy, Aphorisms and apothegms
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