Session Information
Presentations
1: Lessing, Simonides, and the Architecture of Memory
Nicholas A. Rennie, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
2: Lessing, Fable Theory, and the Principle of Reduction
Beate Allert, Purdue U, West Lafayette
3: Irony and Historical Truth: Lessing on Reimarus on Christianity
Joseph Haydt, U of Chicago
4: ‘Die kürzeste Linie ist nicht immer die gerade’: Deviations of History in Lessing’s Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts
Michael McGillen, Dartmouth C
Presider
Peter Alexander Gilgen, Cornell U