Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438441983
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georg Christoph Lichtenberg written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9780940322509
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waste Books written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dale Lyles
Publisher : Lichtenbergian Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692965962
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lichtenbergianism written by Dale Lyles and published by Lichtenbergian Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy gives you nine Precepts, ways to restructure your thinking about how you create and why so that you can just get to work and create the work of your dreams.

Author : Gert Hofmann
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811216951
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl written by Gert Hofmann and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun.

Author : Pierre Senges
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628972106
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Lichtenberg written by Pierre Senges and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth-century German physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg left behind at the time of his death thousands of fragmentary notes commenting on a dazzling and at the same time puzzling array of subjects. Pierre Senges’s Fragments of Lichtenberg imaginatively and hilariously reconstructs the efforts of scholars across three centuries to piece together Lichtenberg’s disparate notes into a coherent philosophical or artistic statement. What emerges instead from their efforts are a wide variety of conflicting and competing Lichtenbergs – the poet, the physicist, the philosopher, the humorist – and a very funny meditation on the way interpretations and speculation create new histories and new realities. In just over half a century, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) had the time to be all of the following: a hunchback; a mathematician; a physics professor; a connoisseur of hare pate; a hermit; an electrical theorist; a skirtchaser; a friend of King George III of England; an asthmatic; a defender of reason; a hypochondriac; a dying man; and the author of 8,000 fragments written with ink and goose quills. Traditionally those fragments have been considered no more than aphorisms, to be sipped like fine schnapps, but certain scholars claim, however, that his famous Wastebooks are really the scattered pieces of a Great Novel, and that this might yet be reconstructed, with the help of scissors, glue, and paper, and by using what is left of our imaginations. The present volume retracts, among other things, the work undertaken for more than a century by valiant Lichtenbergians.

Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
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Download or read book Aphorisms and Letters written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zena Hitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691229198
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost in Thought written by Zena Hitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante, and from films to Hitz's own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought. Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us. Reminding us of who we once were and who we might become, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity.

Author : Robert Hooke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures de Potentia Restitutiva, Or of Spring Explaining the Power of Springing Bodies written by Robert Hooke and published by . This book was released on 1678 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ludwig Jäger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839413761
Total Pages : 465 pages
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Download or read book Media, Culture, and Mediality written by Ludwig Jäger and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like »mediality«, »media culture«, »media discourse« and »procedures of media«. Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research.

Author : Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Vermischte Schriften. [With the preface to the first edition by Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg and Friedrich Christian Kries. With plates, including portraits and a facsimile, and illustrations.] written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: