Index to F.D. Lessing's Lamaist iconography of the Peking temple, Yung-ho-kung

Translated into English for the first time,My AnimalsandFlowersbring forth Theodor Lessing’s visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world...

When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses ...

David Basham argues that Paul and the Corinthians share a “system of associated commonplaces” about the Jerusalem temple. He proposes that when Paul applies temple language to the...

Ritchie Robertson situates Lessing’s text within debates over the proper depiction of extreme suffering in art, focusing on Goethe’s essay on the Laocoon group (1798), as well as o...

Michael Squire explores how Greek and Roman materials can illuminate the thinking behind Lessing’s Laocoon. While Lessing’s project is structured around the interpretation of an an...

Abstract Martial Sound is an ethnographic book examining the music of traditional Chinese martial arts. More specifically, the book investigates the gong and drum pe...