Leibniz Books

New and Published Books

1. Debates in Modern Philosophy

   Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses

   Edited by Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo

   Series: Key Debates in the History of Philosophy

   Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy. It presents 13 key interpretive debates to students, and ranges in coverage from Descartes' Meditations to Kant's Critique of Pure...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion

   Descartes and Beyond

   Edited by Peter Anstey, Dana Jalobeanu

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
3. Leibniz's Final System

   Monads, Matter, and Animals

   By Glenn A. Hartz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the central figures of seventeenth-century philosophy, and a huge intellectual figure in his age. This book from Glenn A. Hartz (editor of the influential Leibniz Review) is an advanced study of Leibniz's metaphysics. Hartz analyzes a very complicated topic,...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
4. Leibniz

   By Nicholas Jolley

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by Bertrand Russell as 'one of the supreme intellects of all time'. A towering figure in seventeenth-century philosophy, his complex thought has been championed and satirized in equal measure, most famously in Voltaire's Candide.In this outstanding...

   Published April 21st 2005 by Routledge
5. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Leibniz and the Monadology

   By Anthony Savile

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Leibniz is a major figure in western philosophy and, with Descartes and Spinoza, one of the most influential philosophers of the Rationalist School. The Monadology is his most famous work and one of the most important works of modern philosophy.Leibniz and the Monadology introduces and assesses:*...

   Published July 26th 2000 by Routledge
6. G.W. Leibniz

   Critical Assessments

   Edited by Roger Woolhouse

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was one of the seventeenth century's most important thinkers. A philosopher, mathematician and scientist, his work is comparable in scope and importance only to that of Newton and Descartes. His work dominated German philosophy until Kant, and was revived in...

   Published November 10th 1993 by Routledge
7. The Philosophy of Leibniz

   3rd Edition

   By Bertrand Russell

   `Mr Russell's very brilliant criticism of Leibniz ... is a piece of controversial philosophy as well as a contribution to history.' - Bernard Bosanquet...

   Published May 20th 1992 by Routledge
8. G.W. Leibniz's Monadology

   By Nicholas Rescher

   For teaching Leibniz - a philosopher as difficult as he is important - this is as good a work as we are ever likely to get. It gives good guidance throughout.' - Robert E. Butts, University of Western Ontario...

   Published January 15th 1992 by Routledge