Leibniz and the English-Speaking World || Leibniz’s Debt to Hobbes

✍ Scribed by Phemister, Pauline; Brown, Stuart

• Book ID: 121511054
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 142 KB
• Edition: 2007
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 140205243X
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5243-9_2

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz’s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. It sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries.