Tag Archives: Gotthold Lessing

two tribes 10 to go

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Dave

Jewish unity is the product of history and that history is unique… In Medieval Christendom the jews remained the major dissident community in a conforming world, the eternal Protestants standing outside the monolithic Christian church, witnesses to another truth and … Continue reading →

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lessing and nathan the wise guy

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

It says much about the Enlightenment spirit that the playwright Gotthold Lessing preferred to look upon himself as a critic. It says much about Lessing the critic that his greatest work of poetic criticism was entitled Laokoon. To Lessing, the … Continue reading →