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The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence

By G. W. Leibniz , Prof. Brandon Look , Professor Donald Rutherford

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
030011804X, 9780300118049, 9780300138092
LCC
B2597 .A4 2007
Open Library ID
OL16238359M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1957789 bytes)
Series
The Yale Leibniz Series
Pages
558\558
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14

Description

This volume is a critical edition of the ten-year correspondence (1706-1716) between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of Europe’s most influential early modern thinkers, and Bartholomew Des Bosses, a Jesuit theologian who was keen to bring together Leibniz’s philosophy and the Aristotelian philosophy and religious doctrines accepted by his order. The letters offer crucial insights into Leibniz’s final metaphysics and into the intellectual life of the eighteenth century. Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford present seventy-one of Leibniz’s and Des Bosses’s letters in the original Latin and in careful English translation. Few of the letters have been translated into English before. The editors also provide extensive annotations, deletions, and marginalia from Leibniz’s various drafts, and a substantial introduction setting the context for the correspondence and analyzing the main philosophical issues.

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