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Monadology, The. by Leibniz, Gotfried Wilhelm

Subjects: “…Monadology Early works to 1800.…”
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G.W. Leibniz's monadology : an edition for students / by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Translation of the 'Monadology'; 3. The Thematic Structure of the 'Monadology'; 4. …”
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Routledge philosophy guidebook to Leibniz and the Monadology / by Savile, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Routledge Philosophy Guide Book to Leibniz and the Monadology; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Two Great Principles (31-7); 2. …”
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Art of philosophy : a selection of Jerzy Perzanowski's works / Selection of Jerzy Perzanowski's works by Perzanowski, Jerzy

Table of Contents: “…Jerzy Perzanowski's Way to the Monadology /…”
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Classics of Western philosophy

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The era of the individual : a contribution to a history of subjectivity by Renaut, Alain

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Contents; I Heidegger: The Reign of the Subject; Part 2: Logic of Philosophy; Part 3: Transcendence and Autonomy: The End of the Monadologies.…”
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Brain and Being. At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts.

Table of Contents: “…Quantum monadology and consciousness -- 1. The aim of quantum monadology -- 2. …”
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Process philosophy : a survey of basic issues by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…The promise of process philosophy -- The idea of process -- The revolt against process -- Human agency as process -- Cognitive processes and scientific progress -- The cognitive process and metaphysical realism -- Process philosophy and historicist relativism -- Process philosophy and monadological metaphysics.…”
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The philosophy of Husserl by Hopkins, Burt C.

Table of Contents: “…From the phenomenology of transcendental consciousness to that of monadological intersubjectivity.…”
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Abstract machines : Samuel Beckett and philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari by Dowd, Garin

Table of Contents: “…Shadow hospitality : Beckett and philosophy after Deleuze & Guattari -- Beckett's abstract machines : from Murphy to The lost ones -- From monadology to nomadology : Leibniz, Deleuze, Beckett -- Matter, judgement, and immanence in How it is -- "Vasts apart" : Deleuze, phenomenology, and Worstward ho -- Beckett's "Dislocations" -- "L'insurrection des molécules."…”
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Central Works of Philosophy : the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Shand, John

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy: Introduction; 1 René Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy; 2 Baruch Spinoza: Ethics; 3 G.W. Leibniz: Monadology; 4 Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan; 5 John Locke: An Essay concerning Human Understanding; 6 George Berkeley: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge; 7 David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature; 8 Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract; Index…”
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On Leibniz by Rescher, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Leibniz on Possible Worlds -- Contingentia Mundi : Leibniz on the World's Contingency -- Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations -- Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks -- Leibniz and the Concept of a System -- Leibniz and Issues of Eternal Recurrence -- Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and Rational Mechanics -- Leibniz and the World's Improvability -- The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz -- Leibniz, Keynes, and the Rabbis -- Leibniz and Socialized Medicine -- The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's Metaphysics -- Leibniz Finds a Niche (1676-1677) -- Leibniz Visits Vienna (1712-1714) -- Leibniz Crosses the Atlantic -- Leibniz and American Philosophy -- Leibniz and Cryptography -- Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria : A Seventeenth-Century Proto-Enigma Machine -- Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics -- Was Leibniz Ennobled? -- Leibniz Disillusioned : Parting Ways from J.D. …”
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Giordano Bruno. by Gatti, Hilary

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One Introduction -- 1 Giordano Bruno as Philosopher of the Renaissance -- Part Two Bruno and Italy -- 2 The Image of Giordano Bruno -- 3 Philosophy versus Religion and Science versus Religion: the Trials of Bruno and Galileo -- 4 Giordano Bruno and Neapolitan Neoplatonism -- 5 Images of Literary Memory in the Italian Dialogues: Some Notes on Giordano Bruno and Ludovico Ariosto -- Part Three Bruno in England -- 6 Giordano Bruno and the Protestant Ethic -- 7 John Charlewood, Printer of Giordano Bruno's Italian Dialogues, and his Book Production -- 8 Giordano Bruno's Infinite Worlds in John Florio's Worlds of Words -- 9 Ultima Thule: Contrasting Empires in Bruno's Ash Wednesday Supper and Shakespeare's Tempest -- Part Four Philosophical Themes -- 10 Giordano Bruno and Astrology -- 11 Simulacra et Signacula: Memory, Magic and Metaphysics in Brunian Mnemonics -- 12 Metempsychosis and Monism in Bruno's nova filosofia -- 13 The Necessity of the Minima in the Nolan Philosophy -- 14 Meanings of 'contractio' in Giordano Bruno's Sigillus sigillorum -- Part Five Influence and Tradition -- 15 Giordano Bruno's Mnemonics and Giambattista Vico's Recollective Philology -- 16 Macrocosm, Microcosm and the Circulation of the Blood: Bruno and Harvey -- 17 Monadology and the Reception of Bruno in the Young Leibniz -- 18 Being a Modern Philosopher and Reading Giordano Bruno -- Index.…”
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Modern philosophy : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Francks, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- John Locke -- On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind -- Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it) -- The life of man: Locke's political thought -- George Berkeley -- Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretation of human experience -- Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter -- David Hume -- Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example -- The failure of the project -- The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?…”
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The philosophy of the young Kant : the precritical project by Schönfeld, Martin (Professor of philosophy)

Table of Contents: “…s Theory of Dynamics -- 3 On the Way toward the Precritical Project -- II: The 1750s: The Precritical Project -- 4 The Conversion to Newton -- 5 The Universal Natural History: The Purposiveness of Nature -- 6 The New Elucidation: The Struggle for Freedom -- 7 The Physical Monadology and the Elements of Nature -- III: The 1760s: Climax and Crisis…”
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Frye and the Word : Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye. by Donaldson, Jeffery

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- A SPIRAL CURRICULUM -- Sacred and Secular Scripture(s) in the Thought of Northrop Frye -- 'In the Climates of the Mind': Frye's Career as a Spiral Curriculum -- METAPHOR AND SPIRIT -- Frye's Double Vision: Metaphor and the Two Sources of Religion -- The Reality of the Created: From Deconstruction to Recreation -- The Metaphysical Foundation of Frye's Monadology -- Word, Flesh, Metaphor, and 'Something' of a Mystery in Words with Power -- MYTH AND TYPOLOGY -- The Flesh Made Word: Body and Spirit in the New Archetypology of Northrop Frye -- Northrop Frye between Archetype and Typology -- Northrop Frye: Typology and Gnosticism -- A Note on Frye and Philo: Philosophy and the Revealed Word -- THE CHURCH -- Frye and the Church -- Northrop Frye and Catholicism -- APPLICATIONS -- Crazy Love: Frye, Breton, and the Erotic Imagination -- Toni Morrison: Re-Visionary Words with Power -- Northrop Frye and the Poetry in Biblical Hermeneutics -- Oscar Wilde's De Profundis: Prison Letter as Myth -- The Seduction of Figaro: Gender and the Archetype of the 'Tricky Servant' -- SPIRAL CURRICULA -- Frye's Fourth: 'The Substance of Things Hoped For, the Evidence of Things Not Seen' -- The Ashes of Stars: Northrop Frye and the Trickster God -- Northrop Frye's 'Kook Books' and the Esoteric Tradition -- Index of Works -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- L -- M -- N -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Index of Biblical Passages -- Index of Names and Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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Frye and the Word : Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye. by Donaldson, Jeffery

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- A SPIRAL CURRICULUM -- Sacred and Secular Scripture(s) in the Thought of Northrop Frye -- 'In the Climates of the Mind': Frye's Career as a Spiral Curriculum -- METAPHOR AND SPIRIT -- Frye's Double Vision: Metaphor and the Two Sources of Religion -- The Reality of the Created: From Deconstruction to Recreation -- The Metaphysical Foundation of Frye's Monadology -- Word, Flesh, Metaphor, and 'Something' of a Mystery in Words with Power -- MYTH AND TYPOLOGY -- The Flesh Made Word: Body and Spirit in the New Archetypology of Northrop Frye -- Northrop Frye between Archetype and Typology -- Northrop Frye: Typology and Gnosticism -- A Note on Frye and Philo: Philosophy and the Revealed Word -- THE CHURCH -- Frye and the Church -- Northrop Frye and Catholicism -- APPLICATIONS -- Crazy Love: Frye, Breton, and the Erotic Imagination -- Toni Morrison: Re-Visionary Words with Power -- Northrop Frye and the Poetry in Biblical Hermeneutics -- Oscar Wilde's De Profundis: Prison Letter as Myth -- The Seduction of Figaro: Gender and the Archetype of the 'Tricky Servant' -- SPIRAL CURRICULA -- Frye's Fourth: 'The Substance of Things Hoped For, the Evidence of Things Not Seen' -- The Ashes of Stars: Northrop Frye and the Trickster God -- Northrop Frye's 'Kook Books' and the Esoteric Tradition -- Index of Works -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- L -- M -- N -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Index of Biblical Passages -- Index of Names and Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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Modern philosophy : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Francks, Richard

Table of Contents: “…The principle of sufficient reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- pt. 4. …”
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Beckett/philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and Nominalist PhilosophyMonadology: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- “The Books are in the Study as Beforeâ€?…”
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Consciousness in the physical world : perspectives on Russellian monism

Table of Contents: “…Monadology 17 and letter to De Volder (excerpt) / Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz -- Critique of pure reason, A270/B326-A278/B334 (excerpt) / Immanuel Kant -- The principles of psychology (excerpt) / William James -- Excerpts from Analysis of matter (1927), Human knowledge: its scope and limits (1948), Portraits from memory (1956), and My philosophical development (1959) / Bertrand Russell -- Russell, Russellian monism, and panpsychism / Leopold Stubenberg -- Russell on Russellian monism / Donovan Wishon -- Rigid designators and mind-brain identity (excerpt) / Grover Maxwell -- The grain problem / Michael Lockwood -- Real materialism: with new postscript / Galen Strawson -- Russellian physicalism / Barbara Gale Montero -- Causality and the combination problem / Gregg Rosenberg -- Panpsychism and panprotopsychism / David J. …”
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Dialogues on metaphysics and on religion by Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715

Table of Contents: “…Malebranche's Speculation in Relation to Neo-Platonism, Cartesianism, and the Monadology of LeibnizDialogues; First Dialogue; The soul and its distinction from the body-The nature of ideas-The world in which our bodies dwell and which we survey is quite different from the world which we see.; Second Dialogue; We see all things in God, and nothing finite is capable of representing Him-Thus it is sufficient to think of Him to know that He exists.; Third Dialogue.…”
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Saint Bonaventure and the Entrance of God Into Theology. by Falque, Emmanuel

Table of Contents: “…A) Reducing and proving GodB) The hyper-knowability of the divine; C) The monadological hypothesis; Part Two: God in the Beginning; Chapter III: The Origin at Work in the Work (Brev. …”
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