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  title info:
    title: Geometry and Monadology
    sub title: Leibniz’s Analysis Situs and Philosophy of Space
  name:
    name part: Risi, Vincenzo De.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 658 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book reconstructs, from both historical and theoretical points of view, Leibniz’s geometrical studies, focusing in particular on the research Leibniz carried out in the last years of his life. It is indeed the first ever comprehensive historical reconstruction of Leibniz’s geometry that meets the interests of both mathematicians and philosophers. The main purpose of the work is to offer a better understanding of the Leibnizean philosophy of space and mature metaphysics, through a pressing confrontation with the problems of geometric foundations. Regarding the scope of these problems, the book also deals in depth with Leibniz’s theory of sensibility, thus favouring the comparison and contrast between Leibniz’s philosophy and Kant’s transcendentalist solution. The Appendix references to a number of previously unpublished manuscripts on geometry from the Leibniz Archiv in Hannover, which disclose new theories, points of view and technicalities of Leibniz’s thought. I find his [De Risi's] contribution to the debate on the reality of corporeal substances to be at once original and decisive. And finally, I am hugely impressed by the expertise he has brought to bear on both the purely formal and the deeply metaphysical sides, each requiring vastly different but equally considerable competences. I am impressed by the original way in which he makes sense of the phenomenalistic strains in Leibniz’s thought by connecting them with the metaphysics of expression, and this in turn with the foundation of real space. In sum, this [book] is an extraordinary accomplishment. (R.T.W. Arthur, McMaster University) I believe that this is an extraordinary [book] which sets new standards for Leibnizean scholarship—and, in particular, for historical and philosophical investigation into the relationship between Leibniz and Kant. (M. Friedman, Stanford University).
  table of contents: Historical Survey -- Geometry -- Phenomenology -- Metaphysics.
  note: by Vincenzo De Risi.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 509
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 33
  identifier: 9783764379865
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7986-5
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