Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-322) and index.
Contents:
Lessing's achievement / H.B. Nisbet -- Lessing and the French Enlightenment / Romira Worvill -- Lessing as journalist and controversialist / Alexander Košenina and Ritchie Robertson -- Lessing's poetry / Richared E. Schade -- Reception, gratitude and obligation : Lessing and the classical tradition / John T. Hamilton -- The contemporaneity of Lessing's aesthetics / Jason Gaiger --- Lessing's dramatic theory / Thomas Martinec -- Solcher Väter giebt es keinen mehr : paternal authority in Lessing's tragedies / Francis Lamport -- Lessing's comedies / K.F. Hilliard -- Lessing and German-Jewish culture : a reappraisal / Jonathan M. Hess -- Lessing and toleration/ Adam Sutcliffe -- Enlightenment as a historical process : Ernst und Falk and Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts / David Hill -- Lessing and the Bible / Christoph Bultmann -- Lessing and science / Karl S. Guthke.
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