Unordentliche Collectanea: Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Laokoon Zwischen Antiquarischer Gelehrsamkeit Und Ästhetischer Theoriebildung

Lessing?s Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (1766) represents a turning point in 18th c. aesthetics. This volume offers detailed presentations about the productive openness of this ?irregular collectanea.? Lessing does not intend to propose a systematic aesthetics, but rather to present a ?fermenta cognitionis? that, in its totality, offers a panoramic view of the problematics of aesthetics and art history in his time.