Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Some Occult Influences on Leibniz’s Monadology

   • Stuart Brown

   Pages 1-21

3. Leibniz and Mysticism

   • Donald Rutherford

   Pages 22-46

4. Leibniz and the Kabbalah

   • Allison P. Coudert

   Pages 47-83

5. Leibniz, Benzelius, and the Kabbalistic Roots of Swedish Illuminism

   • Marcia Keith Scuchard

   Pages 84-106

6. Leibniz on Enthusiasm

   • Daniel J. Cook

   Pages 107-135

7. Leibniz and Chinese Thought

   • Yuen-Ting Lai

   Pages 136-168

8. Leibniz as a Lutheran

   • Ursula Goldenbaum

   Pages 169-192

9. Back Matter

   Pages 193-202

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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.

• Religion
• mysticism
• philosophy

• Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

  Allison P. Coudert, Gordon M. Weiner

• University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Richard H. Popkin

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