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Author:   Avi S. Lifschitz (Associate Professor of European History and Fellow of Magdalen College, Senior Lecturer in European Intellectual History, University College London) ,  Michael Squire (Reader in Classical Art, Reader in Classical Art, King's College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.678kg
ISBN:  

9780198802228

ISBN 10:   0198802226
Pages:   446
Publication Date:   14 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Frontmatter List of Illustrations List of Tables Note on Laocoon Editions 0: W. J. T. Mitchell: Foreword: Why Lessing's Laocoon Still Matters 1: Avi Lifschitz and Michael Squire: Introduction: Rethinking Lessings Laocoon From Across the Humanities 2: David E. Wellbery: Laocoon Today: On the Conceptual Infrastructure of Lessing's Treatise 3: Michael Squire: Laocoon among the Gods, or: On the Theological Limits of Lessing's Grenzen 4: Luca Giuliani: Lessing's Laocoon as Analytical Instrument: The Perspectives of a Classical Archaeologist 5: Katherine Harloe: Sympathy, Tragedy, and the Morality of Sentiment in Lessing's Laocoon 6: Frederick Beiser: Mendelssohn's Critique of Lessing's Laocoon 7: Avi Lifschitz: Naturalizing the Arbitrary: Lessing's Laocoon and Enlightenment Semiotics 8: Daniel Fulda: Temporalization: Lessing's Laocoon and the Problem of Narration in Eighteenth-Century Historiography 9: Elisabeth Décultot: Criticism as Poetry: Lessing's Laocoon and the Limits of Critique 10: Ritchie Robertson: Suffering in Art: Laocoon between Lessing and Goethe 11: Jason Gaiger: Transparency and Imaginative Engagement: Material as Medium in Lessing's Laocoon 12: Jonas Grethlein: Lessing's Laocoon and the 'As-If' of Aesthetic Experience 13: Paul A. Kottman: Art and Necessity: Rethinking Lessing's Critical Practice 14: Jürgen Trabant: Image and Text in Lessing's Laocoon: From Friendly Semiotic Neighbours to Articulatory Twins 15: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: Envoi: The Two-Fold Liminality of Lessing's Laocoon Endmatter Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Avi Lifschitz is Associate Professor of European History and Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. Among his publications are Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century (OUP, 2012) and the edited volumes Engaging with Rousseau (CUP, 2016) and Epicurus in the Enlightenment (co-edited with Neven Leddy; Voltaire Foundation, 2009). He has held research fellowships at the Clark Library at UCLA, the universities of Göttingen and Halle, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Michael Squire is Reader in Classical Art at King's College London. His research has explored the interface between ancient art and literature, as well as the critical reception of ancient visual culture; previous books include Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (CUP, 2009), The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae (OUP, 2011), and The Art of the Body: Antiquity and its Legacy (I. B. Tauris, 2011). He has held fellowships at Cambridge, Cologne, Harvard, Munich, Stanford, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

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