The Waste Books [Audiobook] download free by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Listen audiobook: The Waste Books
- Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Release date: 2000/10/10
- Publisher: THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780940322509
- Rating: 7.51 of 10
- Votes: 653
- Review by: Nolan Rigby
- Review rating: 8.06 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/6
- Duration: 3H14M36S in 256 kbps (52.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MPEG-4 DST, Apple Lossless, MP3, WMA, OPUS, FLAC, WAV (compression RAR, TAR, ACE, ZIP, LZO)
- Total pages original book: 264
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M39S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an experimental physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, a practicing critic both of art and literature. He is most celebrated, however, for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books. With unflagging intelligence and encyclopedic curiosity, Lichtenberg wittily deflates the pretensions of learning and society, examines a range of philosophical questions, and tracks his own thoughts down hidden pathways to disconcerting and sometimes hilarious conclusions. Lichtenberg's Waste Books have been greatly admired by writers as very different as Tolstoy, Einstein, and Andre Breton, while Nietzsche and Wittgenstein acknowledged them as a significant inspiration for their own radical work in philosophy. The record of a brilliant and subtle mind in action, The Waste Books are above all a powerful testament to the necessity, and pleasure, of unfettered thought.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Literary Essays, Social & Political Philosophy, History Of Western Philosophy
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.39 USD
- Dimensions: 127x203x15mm
- Weight: 278g
- Printed by: NYRB Classics
- Published in: New York, United States
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