Lessing's Theory of Argument and the German Enlightenment
by Evelyn K. Moore.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1993
(xix, 123 pages)
Library of rhetorics, 3.
1. The Conflict between Philosophy, Rhetoric and Theology --;2. Rhetoric and Theological Argumentation: Lessing on Cardano --;3. Johann Melchior Goeze's Polemic against the Theatre --;4. Lessing contra Goeze: The Case for Rhetoric --;Conclusion --;Notes --;Primary Sources --;Secondary Sources.
I asked myself why and how this polemical age came to an end and how does the rejection of polemics by the 19th century affect our understanding of the 18th century?