Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by Bertrand Russell as ''one of the supreme intellects of all time''. A towering figure in seventeenth-century philosophy, his complex thought has been championed and satirized in equal measure, most famously in Voltaire''s Candide.

In this outstanding introduction to his philosophy, Nicholas Jolley introduces and assesses the whole of Leibniz''s phi...