Leibniz

Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. She is the author of Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century and has contributed to The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.

• Part I. Youthful Vocations (1646–76): 1. The birth of a vision: background, childhood, and education (July 1646–March 1667); 2. The vision broadens: Nuremberg, Frankfurt, and Mainz (March 1667–March 1672); 3. Old wine in new bottles: Paris, London, and Holland (March 1672–December 1676); Part II. Dreams and Reality (1676–1716): 4. A universal genius as librarian, historian, and mining engineer: Hanover and Lower Saxony (December 1676–October 1687); 5. In the footsteps of the Guelfs: southern Germany, Austria, and Italy (November 1687–June 1690); 6. Back under the Guelf Dukes: Hanover and Wolfenbüttel (June 1690–February 1698); 7. Between brother and sister: Hanover and Berlin (February 1698–February 1705); 8. Light and shadows: Hanover, Berlin, Wolfenbüttel, Vienna (February 1705–September 1714); 9. Epilogue: last years in Hanover (September 1714–November 1716).

Reviews of the hardback: This is a superbly crafted and exhaustively researched account of the development of Leibniz's thought … It is an extraordinary achievement, for the task of writing an intellectual biography of Leibniz is huge. This is a work of unparalleled scholarship that is certain to remain the standard source on its subject for many years to come.' Journal of the History of Philosophy