Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Select Bibliography

Allison, Henry E. Lessing and the Enlightenment: His Philosophy of Religion and its Relation to Eighteenth-Century Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966.

Batley, Edward Malcolm. Catalyst of Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Productive Criticism of Eighteenth-Century Germany.  New York: P. Lang, 1990.

Garland, Henry B. Lessing, the Founder of Modern German Literature, 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962.

Goetschel, Willi. “Lessing, Mendelssohn, Nathan: German-Jewish Myth-Building as an Act of Emancipation” Lessing Yearbook Volume 32, Issue 1 (2000): 341-60.

Goetschel, Willi. “Negotiating Truth: On Nathan's Business” Lessing Yearbook Volume 28, Issue 1 (1996): 105-23.

Grube, Dirk Martin. “Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Ring Parable: An Enlightenment Voice on Religious Tolerance” Faith in the Enlightenment? The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited. Boeve, Lieven, Stoker, Wessel, eds. New York: Rodopi, 2005, pp 39-50.

Grube, Dirk Martin. “Justification rather than truth: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's defence of positive religion in the ring-parable” Bijdragen Volume 66, Issue 4 (2005): 357-78.

Henriksen, Jan-Olav. The reconstruction of religion: Lessing, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2001.

Lamport, F.J. Lessing and the Drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981

Oesmann, Astrid. “Nathan der Weise: Suffering Lessing's 'Erziehung'” Germanic Review Volume 74, Issue 2 (1999): 131-45 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Michalson, Gordon E. Lessing's “ugly ditch”: a study of theology and history. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.

Moore, Evelyn K. The passions of rhetoric: Lessing's theory of argument and the German enlightenment. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993.

Mufti, Aarmir R. “Secularism and Minority: Elements of a Critique” Social Text Volume 45, Issue 1 (1995): 75-96 [Available online through JSTOR]

Robertson, J.G. Lessing's Dramatic Theory. Cambridge: University Press, 1939.

Rudowski, Victor A.  Lessing's Aesthetica in Nuce: An Analysis of the May 26, 1769 Letter to Nicolai. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971.

Wessell, Leonard P. G.E. Lessing's Theology: a reinterpretation: a study in the problematic nature of the enlightenment. The Hague: Mouton, 1977.

Whisenant, J. “Kierkegaard's use of Lessing” Modern Theology Volume 6, Issue 3 (1990): 259-72 [Available online through ATLA]

Williams, Kirk. “Conscientious Objections” Common Knowledge Volume 10, Issue 2 (2004): 273-285 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Wilms, Wilfried. “The Universalist Spirit of Conflict—Lessing's Political Enlightenment” Monatshefte für Deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur Volume 94, Issue 3 (2002): 306-21 [Available online through EBSCOhost]

Yasukata, Toshimasa. Lessing's philosophy of religion and the German Enlightenment: Lessing on Christianity and reason. Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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