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Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography

Door Maria Rosa Antognazza

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#361668-XK4
Titel
Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography
Auteur
Antognazza, Maria Rosa
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Druk
1e druk
Uitgeverij
Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
0521806194
ISBN13
9780521806190
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting
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 endeavours, Antognazza reveals a single master project lending unity to his extraordinarily multifaceted life's work. Throughout the vicissitudes of his long life, Leibniz tenaciously pursued the dream of a systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences. As well as tracing the threads of continuity that bound these theoretical and practical activities to this all-embracing plan, this illuminating study also trac... (Lees verder)es these threads back into the intellectual traditions of the Holy Roman Empire in which Leibniz lived and throughout the broader intellectual networks that linked him to patrons in countries as distant as Russia and to correspondents as far afield as China.
Pagina's
623
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 30,00

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