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• W2019122891 abstract "Reviewed by: Lessings Grenzen Arnd Bohm Lessings Grenzen, edited by Ulrike Zeuch. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, for the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, 2005. 283 pp. €69. None of the serious social, political, and intellectual challenges faced by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1739–81) have yet been overcome. If anything, violence grounded in bigotry and ignorance is on the increase as fanatics from various quarters call for crusades against terrorism, for jihad, for the forced expulsion of tens of millions of immigrants, or for ethnic cleansing. All too readily governments are willing to cave in to the demands of prejudice. In short, the ideals of the Enlightenment remain in peril. This volume, which developed out of a symposium held 21–24 April 2004 at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel (Germany), is a timely intervention on behalf of Lessing's continuing relevance and also a stimulus to continue working for genuine tolerance. While timely, the theme of the conference and the book's title display an impish, almost perverse, stance. How odd it is to celebrate a great thinker and writer by focusing on his putative borders and limits! Not all the participants found it easy to tailor their papers to the agenda. For some, the concept of boundary is rather general. In Andrea Krauss's detailed comparison of Lessing's views on Shakespeare with those of his younger contemporary J. M. R. Lenz, the only boundary is the one established by the contrastive method. Similarly, Monika Schmitz-Emans's history of how Boccaccio, Lessing, Potocki, and Pavič used the ring parable for their respective purposes is fascinating and wide-ranging but says little about borders. The brief discussion by Richard E. Schade of two moments of Lessing's reception in the USA—performances of Minna von Barnhelm in Charleston, South Carolina (1794–95) and of Nathan the Wise in New York (2002)—is a nice demonstration of how texts cross borders but does not engage in any serious reflections on the limits of translation. The bulk of the contributions wrestle with Lessing's thought. Here the categories of borders and limits prove to be ill-suited for grasping Lessing's intentions and methods. No other German philosopher before Nietzsche was such a stern opponent of boundaries, borders, and limits of any sort for the mind. We understand Lessing best if we identify him as a nomad thinker in the framework developed by Deleuze and Guattari in their Traité de nomadologie (originally in Mille Plateaux; translated as Nomadology: The War Machine [1986]). Both in his hermeneutics and in his criticism, Lessing was, to adopt their terms, a nomad, a vector of deterritorialization, whose space is localized and not delimited (Deleuze and Guattari, p. 53). Since the nomad [End Page 166] neither drives towards a specific location nor yearns for an origin, nomadic history cannot be known in advance; it can unfold only as yesterday's tracks. Lessing's life quite literally was nomadic, as he moved from one territory of the Holy Roman Empire to another. He ranged even more widely in his reading and appropriation of world literature. Martin Bollacher reminds us how intimately familiar Lessing was with French literature and how readily he confessed to borrowing foreign treasures. Wolfgang Albrecht sees Ent-Grenzung (un-limiting) as a central principle of Lessing's thinking. The abolition of national boundaries found its apotheosis for Lessing in the example of freemasonry, which embodied cosmopolitanism and could serve as the party of humanity. The importance of freemasonry is amplified by Ulrich Kronauer's analysis of the fictive dialogue between Ernst and Falk, which demonstrates how reason could persuade others to join the cosmopolitan movement. Of course, the nomad's trajectory usually appears to sedentary urbanites as mere aimless wandering. Even as they explore Lessing's ways of thinking, the contributors are uneasy about what they observe. Winfried Barner discerns how crucial contingency is in Lessing's narratives and critiques, but ultimately rejects the irritating business with the writing of contingency as a flaw of Lessing's inexperience. He requires more order in Lessing's plots and smoother transitions in the arguments. Behind this complaint looms the perennial lament that Lessing failed to develop and..." @default.
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