Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad

by Daniel Garber

Book Overview

Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz's thought intelligible by focusing instead on his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019956664X
• ISBN13: 9780199566648
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"