The Education of the Human Race: Lessing, Freud, and the Savage Mind

The rationalist fantasy of the Enlightenment is the myth of the nonviolent origins of virtue, typically represented through the image of rational birth. This myth falters when Odoardo Galotti, invoking the second birth of reason, kills his daughter. This article examines Lessing's Die Erziehung...

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Main Author: Calhoon, Kenneth Scott 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1991
In: The German quarterly
Year: 1991, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 178-189
Further subjects:B Girard, René (1923-2015)
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