“Lessingiasis” and “Nathanology”
摘要
In the later understanding of Nathan, Lessing’s challenging enlightenment of religion is lost sight of – almost as if the question of a reliable interpretation of life had become obsolete. It is replaced by the discomfiture about the figure of the noble Jew, who had always been met with scepticism, and the fascination this figure has always exerted. Lessing’s dramatic poem is canonised as one of the central texts of the European tolerance discourse.