This study investigates the sources influencing Lessing's idea that tragedy improves the spectator morally by arousing his or her pity. Having shown that Lessing's comments on the tragedy's effect take into account three different problems (emotional effect, moral purpose and tragic pleasure), the study then identifies the central prerequisites for Lessing's model in both the humanist tradition (rhetoric, commentaries on Aristotle, poetics), and the epistemology of the Enlightenment (Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Hutcheson, ...
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This study investigates the sources influencing Lessing's idea that tragedy improves the spectator morally by arousing his or her pity. Having shown that Lessing's comments on the tragedy's effect take into account three different problems (emotional effect, moral purpose and tragic pleasure), the study then identifies the central prerequisites for Lessing's model in both the humanist tradition (rhetoric, commentaries on Aristotle, poetics), and the epistemology of the Enlightenment (Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, Hutcheson, Mendelssohn).
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Good Condition. Cover shows minor signs of handling, and a few marks and scuffs. Gift message written in ink on first inside page. A good used copy with no significant defects. Size: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm. ix, 248 pp. Text is in German. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Criticism and interpretation; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Aesthetics; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Ethics; Tragic, The; Enlightenment; Germany; Criticism; Germany; History; 18th century; German Language; ISBN: 3484321164. ISBN/EAN: 9783484321168. Add. Inventory No: 230902JRW036046.
