Continental Idealism: Leibniz to Nietzsche

by Paul Redding

Book Overview

Standard accounts of nineteenth-century German philosophy often begin with Kant and assess philosophers after him in light of their responses to Kantian idealism. In Continental Idealism, Paul Redding argues that the story of German idealism begins with Leibniz.

Redding begins by examining Leibniz's dispute with Newton over the nature of space, time and God, and stresses the way in which Leibniz incorporated Platonic and Aristotelian elements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415443075
• ISBN13: 9780415443074
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"