Paradox and Perspicacity: Horizons of Knowledge in the Literary Text
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Paradox and Perspicacity: Horizons of Knowledge in the Literary Text enters into a dialogue with recent scholarship on a number of fronts. Taking into full account the role played by esotericism in shaping the thought of Leibniz, Cardano, and the Helmonts, Robert Eisenhauer elaborates Lessing’s «cybernetic» view of historical evolution. The essay on Jean Paul’s ars recombinatoria discusses how the discourses of travel, cosmology, and millennial speculation are applied to a Diderot-…





















