The Waste Books Format: Paperback

Description: 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.

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Book Title: The Waste Books Format: Paperback

Genre: General/trade

Narrative Type: book

Intended Audience: General/trade

Number of Pages: 264 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Waste Books

Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

Publication Year: 2000

Subject: Social, History & Surveys / General, Quotations, History & Surveys / Modern

Item Height: 0.6 in

Item Weight: 9.9 Oz

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Subject Area: Référence, Philosophy

Author: Georg Christoph. Lichtenberg

Item Length: 7.9 in

Item Width: 5 in

Format: Trade Paperback