Lichtenberg lacht. Aufklärung und Satire

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) became world-famous as a philosopher, writer and professor of experimental physics. Above all, however, he was one of the most important representatives of the Göttingen Enlightenment, endowed with an extraordinary sense of wit and satire, often with gallows humor and a generous dash of melancholy.

This volume with essays on the beginning, history and impact of the Enlightenment, on the importance of satire for the British Enlightenment, on the laughing Lichtenberg enjoying art, women and theater in London, on the importance of satirical traditions and on the joy of feather-light, humorous philosophy is supplemented with works by 18 artists from the 2014 "Summer Academy for Comic Art" of the Kassel CARICATURA. The pictures were created especially for this book - they invite you on a satirical journey through the centuries in the company of a special person and his aphorisms.

With works by: Maren Amini, Eva Becker, Ludwig Berndl, Siegfried Böttcher, Miguel Fernandez, Robert Hack, Michael Holtschulte, Dominik Joswig, Dorthe Landschulz, Jérémy Leclercq, Ulrike Martens, Arndt Möller, Oger, Oliver Ottitsch, Ari Plikat, POLO, Marion Vina, Stefan Wasserbauer

Edited by WP Fahrenberg and Martin van Gelderen

published: 2015

scope: 160 pages, colour throughout

size: 21 × 26 cm / 8 x 10 inch

Hardcover, thread stitching

ISBN 978-3-945869-01-7

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