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This text explores how phenomenology might lead to monadological metaphysics, and conversely, how monadology might be helpful to nonmetaphysical thinking. Little has been published (especially in English) on the connections between these two fields and this edited volume is an invitation to assess the similarities and differences between Husserl's philosophical projects and Leibniz's metaphysics. Many Leibniz scholars have contributed to this volume. Phenomenologists covered include Stumpf, Brentano, Heidegger, Reinach, and Gurwitsch. This book appeals to scholars and advanced students working in the field.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I General Linkage.- 1 Iso Kern: Husserl's Metaphysics as a Monadology founded in Phenomenology.- 2 James Mensch: Monadology and Intersubjectivity.- 3 Roberto Walton: The Monadological Heritage in Husserl and Whitehead.- 4Renato Cristin: Phenomenology and Monadology: Outlines for a Connection.- Part II Methodological Themes.- 1 Mark van Atten: Noetic Reflection 2 Dominique Pradelle: Monadology and Phenomenology: The Questions of Access to Oneself of the Finite Subject, the Eidetic Intuition of the Concrete Ego, and the Methodical Strata of the Constitution of Intersubjectivity 3 Claudia Serban: The "Constant Universal Teleology" in Husserl's Late Philosophy.- Part III Metaphysical and Ontological Problems- 1 Andrea Altobrando: Windows and Solitude: The Phenomeno-Monadological Constitution of a Common World and of Private Dimensions 2 Michael Shim: Husserl on the "Windows" of Monads 3 Sonja RinofnerKreidl: Loving Like Monads Do: Husserl's Late Reflections on Teleology of Reason and Perfectionism 4 Iulian Apostolescu: The Disquiet of Transcendental Life in the Best of All Possible Worlds: Leibniz and Husserl 5 Abbed Kanoor: Individuation: Husserl and Leibniz 6 Mohammad Shafiei: Ontological Status of Noemata: A Monadological Interpretation.- Part IV Brentanian Perspectives.- 1 Federico Boccaccini: Unity of Consciousness and Other Minds: The Concept of Monad From Brentano to Husserl 2 Riccardo Martinelli: Stumpf on Phenomenology and Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz 3 Susan Krantz Gabriel: The Influence of Leibniz's Theodicy on Brentano's Natural Theology 4 Guillaume Frechette: The Characteristica Universalis of the Mental.- 1 Michel Fichant: Dietrich Mahnke: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Leibniz' Philosophy 2 Francesco Neri: Phenomenological Interpretations of Leibniz's Monadology in the Late Thought of Husserl and Mahnke 3 Kimberly BaltzerJaray: Reinach's Ontology as a Response to Leibniz on Truth, Propositions, and States of Affairs 4. Inga Römer: Leibniz and the Problem of Metaphysics: Heidegger's Interpretations in 1928 and in 1955-56 5 William McKenna: The Disharmony of Monads with Windows: The Human Life-World (Aron Gurwitsch).
About the author
Iulian Apostolescu Philosopher, Editor, Painter. His research focuses on transcendental philosophy, phenomenology, continental philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He is editor-in-chief of the online journal Phenomenological Reviews (ISSN: 2297-7627) and General Editor of Epoché Series, Ratio and Revelatio Publishing House. He is the editor of The Subject(s) of Phenomenology: Rereading Husserl (Springer, 2020) and co-editor (with Claudia Serban) of Husserl, Kant and Transcendental Phenomenology (De Gruyter, 2020). His current projects include two edited volumes on the German philosopher Eugen Fink, a new collection on the phenomenological awakening of reason and a collective volume on the phenomenon of love and its various dimensions (with Veronica Cibotaru).
Mohammad Shafiei has obtained his PhD in 2017 from the University of Paris 1. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. His research interests include transcendental phenomenology, philosophical logic, theories of meaning, and monadology. His publications include Meaning and Intentionality, A Dialogical Approach (College Publications, 2018), and two co-edited volumes (with Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen) Peirce and Husserl: Mutual Insights on Logic, Mathematics and Cognition (Springer 2019) and Phenomenology and Phaneroscopy: A Neglected Chapter in the History of Ideas (Springer 2024).
