Borowski, Audrey
Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691260747
- author:
- Borowski, Audrey
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2025
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 23.6 x 15.5 x 3.3 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Biography, Philosophers, Biography,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was known to his contemporaries as a man of universal learning. This biography restores him to the intellectual and scientific worlds that shaped his early life and thought. Leibniz's story is one of navigating the learned and courtly circles of early modern Europe, where he struggled to make a name for himself as an aspiring scientist and courtier. Drawing on extensive correspondence by Leibniz and many leading figures of the age, Audrey Borowski paints a nuanced portrait of Leibniz in his formative years. By examining Leibniz's trials and tribulations, Borowski challenges the image of him as an isolated genius, revealing instead a complex and human individual whose thought was shaped by his social and intellectual environment.
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