Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
The Waste Books (New York Review Books Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780940322509
- author:
- Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- NYRB Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2000
- Pages:
- 264
- Genre:
- Society, Politics & Philosophy
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg A collection of unbridled thoughts and observations from one of 18th-century Europe's most fascinating minds. Lichtenberg, a polymath with expertise in physics, astronomy, mathematics, and literature, recorded his casual notes and aphorisms in what he called his Waste Books. Here, we find the record of a brilliant and subtle mind at work, deflating pretensions of learning and society while examining fundamental philosophical questions and tracing his thoughts down unexpected pathways to surprising conclusions.
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