Leibniz’s transcendental philosophy (part I)

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The eighth and final chapter of Aron Gurwitsch’s major book, Leibniz. Philosophie des Panlogismus, a translation of which is presented here, lays the foundations for Gurwitsch’s phenomenological reading of Leibnizian thought as a whole, understood and interpreted as a transcendental philosophy: as an objective correlate of divine thought that sustains its systematic unity and original coherence, the world is itself understood in its entirety as the realization and “incorporation” of logic, in the broad sense of the term. Examining the ontological status of relations, and Leibniz’s conception of divine understanding as the transcendental subject of “possible worlds,” this final chapter brings together the guiding principles that support and underpin his entire interpretation.