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This volume presents introductory chapters from internationally-renowned experts on eleven of Leibniz's key philosophical writings. Offering accessible accounts of the ideas and arguments of his work, along with information on their composition and context, this book is an invaluable companion to the study of Leibniz.
List of contents
- Introduction, Including a Sketch of Leibniz's Life and Philosophical Works
- 1: Lucy Sheaf: "Confessio philosophi"
- 2: Mogens Lærke: "De summa rerum"
- 3: Lloyd Strickland: "Discourse on Metaphysics"
- 4: Julia Jorati: The Correspondence with Arnauld
- 5: Julia Borcherding: "New System of the Nature of Substances..."
- 6: John Whipple: The Correspondence with De Volder
- 7: Martha Brandt Bolton: New Essays on Human Understanding
- 8: Paul Lodge: The Theodicy
- 9: Lloyd Strickland: "The Monadology"
- 10: Daniel J. Cook: "Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese"
- 11: Gregory Brown: The Correspondence with Clarke
About the author
Paul Lodge is Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. He is editor and translator of The Leibniz-De Volder Correspondence (Yale University Press, 2013), co-editor (with Tom Stoneham) of Locke and Leibniz on Substance (Routledge, 2015), editor of Leibniz and His Correspondents (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and has published numerous articles and book chapters on the philosophy of Leibniz.
Lloyd Strickland is Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History at Manchester Metropolitan University. In addition to numerous journal articles he has published nine books, including Leibniz on God and Religion (Bloomsbury, 2016), Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz (Palgrave, 2017, with Julia Weckend and Erik Vynckier), Proofs of God in Early Modern Europe (Baylor University Press, 2018), and Leibniz's Legacy and Impact (Routledge, 2019, with Julia Weckend).
Summary
This volume presents introductory chapters from internationally-renowned experts on eleven of Leibniz's key philosophical writings. Offering accessible accounts of the ideas and arguments of his work, along with information on their composition and context, this book is an invaluable companion to the study of Leibniz.
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This collection does a good job of arming the new reader with everything they need to cautiously trust Leibniz. And it also provides lots that will capture the attention of those of us already familiar with his work.
