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David Wellbery charts some of the many ways in which Lessing’s Laocoon has been ‘good to think with’ among the various artistic and literary theoreticians of the twentieth century. Wellbery revises his own earlier interpretative mode: rather than see semiotics and ‘media theory’ as Lessing’s primary contribution, he suggests that the most valuable contexts of Laocoon lie in Lessing’s reflections on the nature of critical judgment, the primacy of human action, and the texture of human emotion.

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