Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon
Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry
Edited by Avi Lifschitz and Michael Squire
Author Information
Avi Lifschitz, Associate Professor of European History and Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford.
Avi Lifschitz is Associate Professor of European History and Fellow of Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. Among his publications are Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century (OUP, 2012) and the edited volumes Engaging with Rousseau (CUP, 2016) and Epicurus in the Enlightenment (co-edited with Neven Leddy; Voltaire Foundation, 2009). He has held research fellowships at the Clark Library at UCLA, the universities of Göttingen and Halle, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Contributors:
Frederick Beiser, Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University
Elisabeth Décultot, Humboldt Professor at the Martin-Luther Universität of Halle-Wittenberg
Daniel Fulda, Professor of German Literature and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies at the Martin-Luther Universität of Halle-Wittenberg
Jason Gaiger, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford
Luca Giuliani, Professor and Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Jonas Grethlein, Professor in Greek Literature at Heidelberg University
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Guérard Professor in Literature at Stanford University
Katherine Harloe, Associate Professor in Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading
Paul A. Kottman, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research in New York
Avi Lifschitz, Senior Lecturer in European Intellectual History at University College London
W. J. T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English, Art History, and Cinema at the University of Chicago
Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford
Michael Squire, Reader in Classical Art at King's College London
Jürgen Trabant, Professor Emeritus of Romance Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin
David E. Wellbery, LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor at the University of Chicago
