The courtier and the heretic : Leibniz, Spinoza, and the fate of God in the modern world /
Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to side with the reclusive philosopher and "atheist Jew" Spinoza. Yet the ambitious young genius Leibniz became obsessed with Spinoza's writings, wrote him clandestine letters and ultimately...
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New York :
Norton,
[2006]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- The Hague, November 1676
- Bento
- Gottfried
- A life of the mind
- God's attorney
- The hero of the people
- The many faces of Leibniz
- Friends of friends
- Leibniz in love
- A secret philosophy of the whole of things
- Approaching Spinoza
- Point of contact
- Surviving Spinoza
- The antidote to Spinozism
- The haunting
- The return of the repressed
- Leibniz's end
- Aftermath.