Leibniz: A Contribution to the Archaeology of Power (Hardcover)

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Connelly demonstrates how Leibniz's rearticulation of power and its associated concepts is motivated at least in part by the struggles that marked the terrain in which his ideas were rooted - the struggle between Reformed and Scholastic theology, between natural law and natural right, and between mechanistic natural philosophy and human freedom. He locates Leibniz within power's wider evolution, and shows how the universal jurisprudence which Leibniz developed between the 1660s and 1690s can be considered as a transformative encounter between power, activity and modality.

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. The move amounts to an internalisation of power as a moral world within each individual, submitting each practical agent to a universal set of obligations and prohibitions defined by that world. What though is at stake in bringing the objective world within each individual and submitting it to a public legal order? And what is the significance of this surgical intervention for any archaeology of power?

About the Author


Stephen Connelly is Associate Professor of Law at Warwick University. He is the author of Spinoza, Right and Absolute Freedom (2015). His research interests include Corporate and financial law; regulation and supervision in the international financial context; legal theory, including natural right theories.


Product Details
ISBN: 9781474418065
ISBN-10: 1474418066
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication Date: March 16th, 2021
Pages: 352
Language: English