Abstract:The essay analyses the aphorism J 528 in Lichtenberg"s Sudelbüchern as a model study of elementary questions and interests of the enlightenment, and as an example of the author"s specific way of thinking and writing focusing on three aspects: 1) epistemological: Lichtenberg"s text deals with the relationship between reason and anthropological as well as social factors, offering a kind of genealogy of rational behavior; 2) methodological and poetological: The text is a paradigm of Lichtenberg"s transferring sci… Show more
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