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Leibniz : a contribution to the archaeology of power / Stephen James Connelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Connelly, Stephen James, author.
- Series:
- Encounters in law and philosophy.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Encounters in law and philosophy
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.
- Power (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Drawing on thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Grotius, Husserl and Deleuze, Connelly traces Leibniz's conceptualisation of power through its applications in his legal texts, revealing that Leibniz in fact reconceptualises power under a new name: the state space.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- One From Trinity to Mind: The Intensional Basis of the Law
- Two Potency and Supposita
- Three Will: The Scholastic Heritage
- Four Will, Power and Pretensionality
- Five Ars Combinatoria as Urdoxa
- Six A New Method of Teaching Law
- Seven Power and Obligation in the 1660s
- Eight Power and Obligation in the Elementa Iuris Naturalis: The State Space
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-1809-0
- 1-4744-9573-7
- 1-4744-1808-2
- OCLC:
- 1245667528
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