...” and “thou” in light of Émile Benveniste, Emmanuel Levinas, Franz Rosenzweig, and Martin Heidegger, or Celan’s missed encounter with Theodor W. Adorno. It has, however, largely gone unremarked that Celan undertook an intensive reading of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Monadology in August 1959, at the same time...

...—Santayana cites Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, George Berke ley, and Nicolas de Malebranche—all “imagined feelings and ideas . . . [would] be reduced to elements in a picture painted by the [mind], and existing only under the unity of his apperception, in which they are obviously interrelated...

... with a “deformation” of central perspective. 51 It then continues, since Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the “Genieästhetik” (aesthetics of genius), with a general paradigm shift from other art forms to writing and text. 52 And it finally concludes with the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Valéry himself...

...). What is “the factu- ality of the real world”? In “Truth and Politics,” written in response to the controversy caused by the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt speaks of two notions of truth. Following Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, she distinguishes “rational truth,” describing...

... of discourse adopted during World War I by prominent Ger- man thinkers such as Thomas Mann, Werner Sombart, and Wilhelm Wundt.3 In their attempt to bestow cultural signifi cance on the war, these thinkers This article is part of my research on Georg Simmel’s philosophy supported by the Israeli Science...

... German Enlightenment intellectuals, such as Gott­fried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–81), and Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803), depicted Mus- lims in a positive light in their work, Goethe surpassed them, as “his state- ments are more daring and provocative than...

... an imperfect but still functional way to compensate for the “poverty of our instincts” and the limits of our intelligence. It is based on what he called, with a sly twist on Gottfried Leibniz’s famous formula, “the principle of insufficient reason (principium rationis insufficientis). It is the correlate...