Leibnizing

A Philosopher in Motion

Richard Halpern

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Columbia University Press
15 August 2023

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Philosophy; History of ideas

Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for transdisciplinary thinking that can push back against the narrowness of the humanities today.

Richard Halpern recasts Leibniz as a great writer as well as a great philosopher, demonstrating that his philosophical project cannot be fully understood without taking its literary elements into account. He shows Leibniz to be a prescient thinker about art and beauty whose insights into the relationship between aesthetic experience and thought remain invaluable. Leibnizing asks readers to follow the dynamic movement of Leibniz's writing instead of attempting to grasp a static philosophical system and to pay careful attention to the rhetorical and stylistic registers of Leibniz's work as well as its conceptual and logical dimensions.

For philosophers, this book offers a novel approach to reading and interpreting Leibniz. For literary and other theorists, it showcases the relevance of Leibniz's thought to areas from aesthetics to politics and from metaphysics to computer science. Written in a lucid and even witty style, Leibnizing provides readers with an accessible entryway into Leibniz's sometimes forbidding but ultimately rewarding philosophical vision.

By: Richard Halpern
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780231211154
ISBN 10: 0231211155
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 15 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface: Leibniz Among the Disciplines 1. Leibniz in Motion 2. Tinkering 3. How to Read a Leibnizian Sentence 4. Metaphorical Clumping 5. The Mathematics of Resemblance 6. Cognitive Mapping and Blended Spaces 7. Chemical Wit 8. Perspective 9. Expression 10. How to Build a Monad 11. Monadic Politics 12. The Mind-Body Problem 13. Microperceptions 14. The Je Ne Sais Quoi and the Leibnizian Unconscious 15. Mind Is a Liquid 16. The Confused and the Distinct 17. Philosophy as Aesthetic Object 18. Blind Thought 19. Dark Leibniz 20. Things Fall Apart 21. The Monad as Event: Alfred North Whitehead 22. The Monad as Strange Loop: Douglas Hofstadter 23. The Godless Monad: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela 24. The Quantum Monad: David Bohm 25. Afterword: Leibniz in My Latte Acknowledgments Notes Index

Richard Halpern is the author of six books on topics ranging from Shakespeare to Norman Rockwell. At his retirement, he was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University.

Reviews for Leibnizing: A Philosopher in Motion

This engaging and highly original book welcomes the reader into the experience of meeting Leibniz with Halpern as our guide. Proceeding little by little, monad by monad as it were, we go on a journey that is unexpectedly festive, funny, and full of surprises. By carefully selecting themes and passages and providing occasional illustrations from Leibniz's papers, Halpern has deftly created a dazzling series of windows into the world of Leibniz. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of <i>Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life</i>