Again, I'm hoping you can provide the references I requested. Did I also
mention I'd be interested in locating Horkheimer's reference to monads?
Re Marxist work on Leibniz: I am unfamiliar with analyses of Leibniz's
political role. I'm really interested in Marxist analyses of Leibniz's
philosophy.
At 11:52 PM 6/3/2006 +0000, William Drischler wrote:
June 3, 2006
Comrade Dumain -
Have I got the article for you!
This is "Das Invividuelle denken. Der vollstaendige Individuenbegriff bei
Leibniz u. seine Wieder- aufnahme bei Adorno" (Guido Kreis, Bonn). It's
slated to appear in the Conference Bulletin of the World Leibniz Congress
in Hanover this July. I'm trying to make it to the Congress to obtain a
copy, but the world Leibniz Society also sells them outright. Horkheimer
discussed monads too, but not as extensively as Adorno. I'm trying to
order the big, new, fat edition of Adorno's lectures from 1962-1963.
You're right that the new Leibniz/Spinoza bio is usefull. The author (I
don't know how he figured this out) quite appropriately contends Leibniz
enjoyed a more or less unilinear increase in political influence,
especially after he curried favor with Czar Peter. The biographical
legends [A.W. Ward] have it that the philosopher's influence declined
after the expiry of the Electoress Sophie in 1714, but Leibniz was already
well integrated (to put it mildly) in the secret diplomacy network.
The Marxist work on Leibniz leaves plenty of room for improvement. The
much-vaunted works of Hans Heinz Holz and Jon Elster say nothing about
Russia and secret diplomacy.
As I'm sure you know, Marx ran a private Leibniz museum out of his own
home in his last years. Some quite intriguing Leibniz memorablia were
assembled.
WILLIAM FR. DRISCHLER
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