The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300118049)

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.

Author: G. W. Leibniz
ISBN-10: 030011804X
ISBN-13: 9780300118049
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2007
Pages: 558
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.97lbs
Size: 9.47h x 6.65w x 1.54d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/15/2008 pg. 104