Gordon M Weiner

Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion - International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees Gordon M Weiner 1998 edition

Marc Notes: Papers from a workshop conference held Nov. 18-19, 1994 in the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles, Calif.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Introduction. 1. Some Occult Influences on Leibniz's Monadology; S. Brown. 2. Leibniz and Mysticism; D. Rutherford. 3. Leibniz and the Kabbalah; A. P. Coudert. 4. Leibniz, Benzelius, and Swedenborg: The Kabbalistic Roots of Swedish Illuminism; M. K. Schuchard. 5. Leibniz on Enthusiasm; D. J. Cook. 6. Leibniz and Chinese Thought; Yuen-Ting Lai. 7. Leibniz as a Lutheran; U. Goldenbaum. Index. Publisher Marketing: Some scholars in the history of ideas have had a growing interest in examining Leibniz's many discussions ofvarious aspects of religion, Christian, Jewish and far eastern. Leibniz, with his voracious interest and concern for so many aspects of human intellectual and spiritual life, read a wide variety of books on the various religions of mankind. He also was in personal contact with many of those who espoused orthodox and non-orthodox views. He annotated his copies of many books on religious subjects. And he was working on schemes for reuniting the various Catholic and Protestant churches in Europe. Studies on Leibniz's views on Judaism, on the Kabbalah, on Chinese thought have been appearing over the last decades. It was decided by some of us that since there has been a growing interest in this side of Leibniz's thought it would be a good idea to bring together a group of scholars working on different aspects of Leibniz's views on religion, mysticism and spiritualism, in order to h ve them present papers on their current researches, and to have the opportunity for lengthy discussion, formal and informal, in the most pleasant academic ambiance of the William Andrews Clark Library in Los Angeles. Under the sponsorship of the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, a workshop conference was held November 18-19, 1994.

Contributor Bio:  Popkin, Richard H Popkin is the author or editor of over 30 books and 300 articles on philosophy, the history of ideas and Jewish intellectual history. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Washington University (St. Louis) and Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy at UCLA. Contributor Bio:  Coudert, Allison P Allison P. Coudert is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is author of The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont, 1614-1698. Jeffrey S. Shoulson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. He is author of Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity.