Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography, Maria Rosa Antognazza's 2009 academic biography from Cambridge University Press, winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award in 2010, surveys the full breadth of Leibniz's theoretical and practical activities as a unified intellectual project, including the 1710 Theodicy and its systematic answer to Pierre Bayle's challenge that a good, omnipotent God and the world's evident evil cannot coexist. Its strength is that it is an award winning academic biography treating Leibniz's whole career as one project rather than isolated achievements. Its limit is that a biography surveying his full range necessarily treats any single topic, such as the Theodicy, at less depth than a study dedicated to that work alone would give it.
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Tier one: an award winning academic biography from Cambridge University Press, winner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award, treating Leibniz's whole intellectual career including the Theodicy as one unified project. Its limit is that a survey of his full range necessarily treats any single work in less depth than a study dedicated to it alone. NotesWinner of the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award, 2010. Surveys the full breadth of Leibniz's theoretical and practical activities as a unified intellectual project, including the 1710 Theodicy and its systematic answer to Pierre Bayle's challenge that a good, omnipotent God and the world's evident evil cannot coexist.
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AuthorMaria Rosa Antognazza
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year2009
Source Typeacademic biography
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