Monadology

Bertrand Russell, for example, famously remarked in the Preface to his book on Leibniz that he felt that “the Monadology was a kind of fantastic fairy tale, coherent perhaps, but wholly arbitrary.”

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Look, Brandon C. 2007

The "Monadology" is a series of propositions drawn up for the use of Prince Eugene, and was never intended to be made public.

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Monadology, might help to explain a phenomenon that appears to be remote — almost inconceivably remote — from philosophical metaphysics: modern nightlife.

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Leibniz's Monadology attracted the interest of Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and other writers associated with the Athenaeum magazine towards the end of the eighteenth century.

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The most illustrious (and discreet) modern student of the Monadology in its Romantic aspect was, curiously, another Marxist,

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Further, in a famously eccentric and remarkable image, he declares, "Monads have no windows through which something can enter or leave" (Leibniz, Monadology 214).

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One could therefore begin to conceive of perceptions that are "clear, but confused" — a formulation of ontological substance (since perception is substance in the Monadology) that relies on a complex rhetoric of clarity and obscurity.

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The expressive correspondences between various modes of obscurity — verbal, topographical, even sociological — are essential to understanding the explanatory value of the Monadology as a model for the substance of nightlife.

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Monadology (Leibniz never gave it a title) — a treatise of some twelve pages written in

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But there is another Leibniz that we find in his more speculative, more Empedoclean, metaphysical writings, particularly the Monadology.

Disbelief 2009