The German thinker Georg Christoph Lichtenberg reinforces the Enlightenment | EUROtoday

Nowadays little recognized, when he was run by Goethe, Kant, Nietzsche or Tolstoy as one of many best minds of his time, this German thinker, author and physicist has left a monumental work. Black sur white editions invite us to (re) uncover all of its Drafts (Sudelbücher), In which this common and flamboyant spirit famous every little thing he noticed, questioned, studied with an inexhaustible curiosity, whether or not it’s the customs of the inhabitants of the Marian Islands or the contact floor between two cleaning soap bubbles, the origin of caviar or astronomy, this “science where man can best learn to measure his smallness”.

Read too The true story of Arnarulunguaq, inuit heroine“I would like to undress everything: see new, hear new, feel new,” he says for himself. Lucid (“I always see a soldier with his bayonet as an argument”), apostle of the nuance (“the oldest adage is certainly: all excess is unhealthy”), promoter of mental effort (“we must never say to ourselves: this proposition is too difficult for me […] : It is a weakness which can easily degenerate into a total inaction ”), this Montaigne of the XVIII^e A century as a poet as a person is a companion that cannot be recommended too much in these wild times.