230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

According to the received view, Kant’s critical revolution put an end to the kind of metaphysics of which Leibniz’s ‘Monadology’ is the example par excellence. This volume challenges Kant’s claim by providing a far more nuanced version of philosophy’s ‘post-Kantian’ tradition that spans from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century and brings to light a rich tradition of new... Read more

Introduction – Monadologies: An Historical Overview  1. Reconciling Leibnizian Monadology and Kantian Criticism  2. Herbart’s Monadology  3. Bolzano’s Monadology  4. From Habit to Monads: Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance  5. Reviving Spiritualism with Monads: Francisque Bouillier’s Impossible Mission (1839-64)  6. Learning from Leibniz: Whitehead (and Russell) on Mind, Matter and Monads  7. British Idealist Monadologies and the Reality of Time: Hilda Oakeley Against McTaggart, Leibniz, and Others  8. Heidegger on the Being of Monads: Lessons in Leibniz and in the Practice of Reading the History of Philosophy  9. Five Figures of Folding: Deleuze on Leibniz’s Monadological Metaphysics  10. Leibniz’s Monadological Positive Aesthetics

Biography

Jeremy Dunham is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK.



Pauline Phemister is Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK.