This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. In contrast to traditional assessments that view the metaphysics in terms of its place among post-Cartesian theories of the world, Jan Cover and John O'Leary-Hawthorne examine the question of how the scholastic themes which were Leibniz's inheritance figure - and are r...(展开全部)

Review "This wide ranging and clearly written book offers a judiciously compendious but rich account of the doctrine of substance..." -- Review of Metaphysics This wide ranging and clearly written book offers a judiciously compendious but rich account of the doctrine of substance in the hands of Decartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.. – Review of Metaphysics ...a plasure to read and d...(展开全部)

Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography provides a unified portrait of this unique thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre of the huge range of Leibniz's apparently miscellaneous en...(展开全部)

Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography provides a unified portrait of this unique thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre of the huge range of Leibniz's apparently miscellaneous en...(展开全部)

吉尔·德勒兹(Gilles Deleuze,1925-1995)，法国哲学家，1925年生于法国巴黎，1944年就读于索邦大学哲学系，1957年被任命为索邦大学教员，后来任教于里昂大学和巴黎第八大学，1987年退休。从20世纪50年代初到1995年去世，他写了大量关于哲学、文学、电影的文章。他最受欢迎的作品是《资本主义与精神分裂:反俄狄浦斯》和《资本主义与精神分裂:千高原》，尽管他曾自称为“纯粹的形而上学家”，但他的作品影响了人文学科的各个领域，包括哲学、艺术和文学理论，以及后结构主义和后现代主义等运动。

吉尔·德勒兹(Gilles Deleuze,1925-1995)，法国哲学家，1925年生于法国巴黎，1944年就读于索邦大学哲学系，1957年被任命为索邦大学教员，后来任教于里昂大学和巴黎第八大学，1987年退休。从20世纪50年代初到1995年去世，他写了大量关于哲学、文学、电影的文章。他最受欢迎的作品是《资本主义与精神分裂:反俄狄浦斯》和《资本主义与精神分裂:千高原》，尽管他曾自称为“纯粹的形而上学家”，但他的作品影响了人文学科的各个领域，包括哲学、艺术和文学理论，以及后结构主义和后现代主义等运动。

Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism. In "Continental Idealism", Paul Redding argues that the story of German idealism begins with Leibniz. Redding begins by examining Leibniz's dispute with Newton over the nature of space, time and God, and stresses the ...(展开全部)