Lessing’s Enlightenment of the Enlightenment

Professor Kerber's lecture will explore Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s pivitol critique of the Enlightenment through his involvement in the Fragments Controversy (1774-1778).

Lessings publication of Hermann Samuel Reimarus’s “Fragments of an Unnamed Author,” a radical critique of the Bible and Biblical religion, sparked the most consequential theological debate in 18th-century Germany. His focus will be on Lessing’s own position in the controversy and especially on his defense of Christianity against the Enlightenment’s attack.

Guest: Hannes Kerber, Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy at Boston College

Moderator: William Wood, Researcher at the European Centre of Political Philosophy

Registration: https://mcc.hu/esemenyregisztracio/lessings-enlightenment-of-the-enlightenment

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