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Leibniz and the Kabbalah (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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Leibniz and the Kabbalah (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 142
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The general view of scholars is that the Kabbalah had no meaningful
influence on Leibniz's thought. } But on the basis of new evidence
I am convinced that the question must be reopened. The Kabbalah did
influence Leibniz, and a recognition of this will lead to both a
better understanding of the supposed "quirkiness, 2 of Leibniz's
philosophy and an appreciation ofthe Kabbalah as an integral but
hitherto ignored factor in the emergence of the modem secular and
scientifically oriented world. During the past twenty years there
has been increasing willingness to recognize the important ways in
which mystical and occult thinking contributed to the development
of science and the emergence 3 of toleration. However, the
Kabbalah, particularly the Lurianic Kabbalah with its monistic
vitalism and optimistic philosophy of perfectionism and universal
salvation, has not yet been integrated into the new historiography,
although it richly deserves to be. On the basis of manuscripts in
libraries at Hanover and Wolfenbiittel, it is clear that Leibniz's
relationship with Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614- 1698) and
Christian Knorr von Rosenroth (1636-1689), the two leading
Christian Kabbalists of the period, was much closer than previously
imagined and that his direct knowledge of their writings,
especially the collection of 4 kabbalistic texts they published in
the Kabbala Denudata, was far more detailed than most scholars have
realized. During 1688 Leibniz spent more than a month at Sulzbach
with von Rosenroth.
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