{"product_id":"leibnizing-a-philosopher-in-motion-columbia-themes-in-philosophy-social-criticism-and-the-arts-9780231211154","title":"Leibnizing A Philosopher in Motion Columbia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Halpern argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for transdisciplinary thinking that can push back against the narrowness of the humanities today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engaging and highly original book welcomes the reader into the experience of meeting Leibniz with Richard 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 \u003ci\u003eShakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this brilliant and sprightly book, Richard Halpern reinvents the philosopher and polymath G. W. Leibniz for the twenty-first century. For Halpern, Leibniz is both a proto-science fiction writer and a mad tinkerer who invents a perpetual-motion machine. Speculative thought in the manner of Halpern’s Leibniz leads us to continually new insights and offers us continually new occasions of delight. -- Steven Shaviro, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Halpern's \u003ci\u003eLeibnizing\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling and original investigation of the work of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from an angle that will be completely unfamiliar to most philosophers: the angle of style. But the philosophers' Leibniz is a mere shadow of the hot-blooded Leibniz that comes through in Halpern's masterful treatment, which shows that there can be no easy distinction between style and substance. This work both stands apart from the past several centuries of Leibniz scholarship, and at the same time holds the rare promise of renewing this field, and causing us to see the object of our scholarly interest in a fundamentally new way. -- Justin E. H. Smith, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eScenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Leibniz Among the Disciplines\u003cbr\u003e1. Leibniz in Motion\u003cbr\u003e2. Tinkering\u003cbr\u003e3. How to Read a Leibnizian Sentence\u003cbr\u003e4. Metaphorical Clumping\u003cbr\u003e5. The Mathematics of Resemblance\u003cbr\u003e6. Cognitive Mapping and Blended Spaces\u003cbr\u003e7. Chemical Wit\u003cbr\u003e8. Perspective\u003cbr\u003e9. Expression\u003cbr\u003e10. How to Build a Monad\u003cbr\u003e11. Monadic Politics\u003cbr\u003e12. The Mind-Body Problem\u003cbr\u003e13. Microperceptions\u003cbr\u003e14. The \u003ci\u003eJe Ne Sais Quoi \u003c\/i\u003eand the Leibnizian Unconscious\u003cbr\u003e15. Mind Is a Liquid\u003cbr\u003e16. The Confused and the Distinct\u003cbr\u003e17. Philosophy as Aesthetic Object\u003cbr\u003e18. Blind Thought\u003cbr\u003e19. Dark Leibniz\u003cbr\u003e20. Things Fall Apart\u003cbr\u003e21. The Monad as Event: Alfred North Whitehead\u003cbr\u003e22. The Monad as Strange Loop: Douglas Hofstadter\u003cbr\u003e23. The Godless Monad: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela\u003cbr\u003e24. The Quantum Monad: David Bohm\u003cbr\u003e25. Afterword: Leibniz in My Latte\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864264683863,"sku":"9780231211154","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231211154.jpg?v=1722271141","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leibnizing-a-philosopher-in-motion-columbia-themes-in-philosophy-social-criticism-and-the-arts-9780231211154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}