Leibniz
A Very Short Introduction
$19.98
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2016
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 conte…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198718642 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198718640 |
| Author: | Maria Rosa Antognazza, Professor 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: | 9mm x 111mm x 183mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
Maria Rosa Antognazza
Maria Rosa Antognazza
Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at King’s 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)
- 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) and has published numerous contributions on seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy. She has also edited texts by Leibniz, J. H. Alsted, and H. Grotius.
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