Trajectories of a Multifaceted Mind

EDITORIALE / Lucia Oliveri, Osvaldo Ottaviani / The story concerning the edition of Leibniz’s papers and letters renders the story...

CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Alessandro Poli / «Deep unfathomable mistery». Marianna Florenzi Waddington, Leibniz and the First Italian Edition of Monadology...

ARTICOLI / 1 / Clara Silvia Roero, Erika Luciano / Leibniz and Peano. From binary number systems to machines This paper...

CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Giovanna Varani  The ardigoian reception of Leibniz in the context of Italian Positivism For a long...

ARTICOLI / 2 / Jürgen Jost / We systematically analyze the conceptual structure of modern physics, i.e., the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, from the perspective of Leibniz’s three basic principles of identity, sufficient reason and...

CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Sjoerd van Tuinen / In his Cartesian Meditations (1929), Edmund Husserl proposes a monadological solution to the epistemological problem of transcendental solipsism. At the basis of intersubjectivity lies the lived body (Leib). After the famous bracketing of the empirical...

CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Miriam Aiello / Tarde, Adorno and Bourdieu. Three uses of the Leibnizian concept of monad in social philosophy The article explores the uptake of Leibniz’s concept of monad within the social theories of Tarde, Adorno and Bourdieu....

CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Harrie Manders / Are the main topics in the works of Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) significantly influenced by his study of the philosophy of Leibniz (1646-1716)? I shall approach this question by looking at some central concepts in...

CONTRIBUTI / 6 / Ronald Durán-Allimant / In this paper I study Leibniz’s influence on Bergson’s notions of image, matter, memory, and related ones, as the French philosopher develop them in his book Matter and Memory (1896). First, I analyse the universe...

CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Javier Toscano / This article explores the influence of G. W. Leibniz in Walter Benjamin’s political texts, with a focus on his Towards a Critique of Violence on the centennial of its appearance. It argues that Benjamin’s...

CONTRIBUTI / 8 / Fabio Corigliano / Leibniz in Ventotene In this paper, I propose a reading of the Ventotene Manifesto by taking into account the influence of Leibniz’s doctrine of sovereignty on Eugenio Colorni, by giving special attention to the...

CONTRIBUTI / 9 / Christopher P. Noble / In this paper, I compare Leibniz with the twentieth-century German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and make a case for reading Gadamer as representing a model of a contemporary, post-Idealist, Leibnizian philosopher. By drawing attention...

INTERVISTE / 1 / Lucia Oliveri, Osvaldo Ottaviani / Logical relations. A dialogue with Massimo Mugnai Massimo Mugnai has engaged both in editorial and theoretical work on Leibniz’s logic. His work has promoted a reconstruction- and comparison-based account of research, inspiring later...