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Verlagsinfo: Diese Leibniz-Monografie von Hans Heinz Holz, die der Autor als Summe seiner Leibniz-Forschungen noch kurz vor seinem Tod abgeschlossen hat, bietet eine umfassende Darstellung des Leibniz'schen Werkes. Als Philosoph entwickelt Leibniz einen Gegenentwurf zu zeitgenössischen Theorien, in dem Pluralität als Offenbarung der sich aufgliedernden Einheit des Universums verstanden wird. Daneben agiert Leibniz sowohl als Historiker, als Diplomat, der verschiedenen europäischen Herrschern dient, und auch als Jurist, der Entwürfe zur Überwindung der Konfessionsstreitigkeiten in Europa entwickelt. Holz macht deutlich, dass Leibniz' praktisch orientiertes Handeln demselben Geist folgt wie seine philosophischen Entwürfe: Leibniz geht es darum, in der Mannigfaltigkeit der erkannten Welt deren Einheit zu erfassen. In klarer Sprache wird beschrieben, wie der Philosoph, der Universalgelehrte und der Politiker Leibniz zusammengehören

Gottfried Leibniz has been one of the most important and influential philosophers of the seventeenth century and, alongside Descartes and Spinoza, one of three great early modern Rationalist thinkers. Covering all the key concepts of his work, Starting with Leibniz provides an accessible introduction to the ideas of this hugely significant thinker. Thematically structured, the book leads the reader through a thorough overview of Leibniz's thought, resulting in a more complete understanding of the roots of his philosophical concerns. Offering coverage of the full range of Leibniz's

Leibniz and Kant were the most important figures in German philosophy from the late 17th to the early 19th century. This volume examines the relationships between their philosophies, illuminating fundamental questions of metaphysics, epistemology and philosophical theology, as well as assessing Kant's understanding of his philosophical predecessor.

"As there is neither recent nor updated scholarship regarding the connection between Leibniz' thought and protestant theology, this book, based on a wide cross section of Leibniz's writings including important new and unexplored material tackles the question from the point of view of the history of ideas showing that Leibniz' efforts in view of a confessional union especially the one between the Lutherans of Hannover and the Calvinists of Brandenburg were based on Leibniz' Lutheran religious convictions, and at the same time and to the same extent on his philosophical doctrines, especially those relating to the problem of substance and to the vexed questions of freedom, necessity, and theodicy. The book is organized in seven chapters and contains a separate introduction and conclusion. For sections on the eucharist and predestination especially, care is taken to present the philosophical counterpoints of these issues: substance and necessity. The section on Leibniz as historian of the sacred is intended to show how Leibniz, as opposed to Newton in particular, views sacred history and the place of God in it. It is meant to fill in the gap left by various recent studies on Leibniz as historian, which have not taken his position as historian of the sacred into account. The conclusion highlights the ways Leibniz's basically Lutheran nonorthodox theology coincides with his philosophy. This means inevitably that Leibniz was not a standard Lutheran but that the solutions he sought to the problems of confessional division were rather more philosophical than theological and that his view of sacred history was intended to vindicate his theodicy. Leibniz's unique integration of theology into philosophy proved satisfactory neither to theologians nor to many philosophers of his time"--

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz' Theorie der Modalität nimmt innerhalb der frühneuzeitlichen Philosophie eine ganz besondere Stellung ein. Leibniz analysiert die Begriffe der Möglichkeit und Notwendigkeit so intensiv wie kein anderer Philosoph seiner Zeit. Sebastian Bender rekonstruiert die metaphysischen Grundlagen dieser Modalitätskonzeption und zeigt auf, wie eng Leibniz' Rationalismus und Theismus mit dieser Konzeption verflochten sind.

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). Trained as a jurist and employed as a counsellor, librarian, and historian, he made famous contributions to logic, mathematics, physics, and metaphysics, yet viewed his own aspirations as ultimately ethical and theological, and married these theoretical concerns with politics, diplomacy, and an equally broad range of practical reforms: juridical, economic, administrative, technological, medical, and ecclesiastical. Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography not only surveys the full breadth and depth of these theoretical interests and practical activities, it also weaves them together for the first time into 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, to be undertaken as a collaborative enterprise supported by an enlightened ruler; these theoretical pursuits were in turn ultimately grounded in a practical goal: the improvement of the human condition and thereby the celebration of the glory of God in His creation. As well as tracing the threads of continuity that bound these theoretical and practical activities to this all-embracing plan, this illuminating study also traces 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.