Leibniz, 9780198718642
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Leibniz

A Very Short Introduction

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    160 pages

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    5 October 2016

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Summary

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times. More than anything else, he was a man who wanted to improve the life of his fellow human beings through the advancement of all the sciences and the establishment of a stable and just political order.

In this Very Short Introduction, Maria Rosa Antognazza outlines the central features of Leibniz’s philosophy in the cont…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198718642
ISBN-10:0198718640
Author:Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:5 October 2016
Weight:137g
Dimensions:111mm x 183mm x 9mm
Series:Very Short Introductions
About The Author

Maria Rosa Antognazza

Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London. She has held research and visiting fellowships in Italy, Germany, Israel, Great Britain, and the USA, including a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-2000) and a two-year research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2003-5). She is the author of Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University Press, 2007). She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Leibniz (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), has published numerous contributions on seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy, and has edited texts by Leibniz, J. H. Alsted, and H. Grotius.

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