Leibniz and China
Subtitle: A Commerce of Light
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521830249
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,; Philosophy; China; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; 1646-1716; Freiherr von,; Philosophy, Chinese
First sentence: If we insist on characterizing our age as multicultural, we should recognize it as a late phase of an age that began with increased pressure and contact with the Islamic world in the twelfth century.