Insiders and Outsiders

I am reading (or rather going through) a new book called "Insiders and Outsiders in 17th-Century Philosophy", edited by G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell and Jill Kraye. It is about the reception of various 17th century philosophers with a rather vague effort to try to put them into different categories which seems to me to be an effort to fool the publisher to accept it rather than a serious attempt to create new ways to see Early Modern Philosophy.

Much I would like to read the whole book, I have time only to the Leibniz-articles. I rather liked the one by Daniel Garber who tooks the trouble to go through Fontenelle's Éloge of Leibniz in detail and some other later French editions of Leibniz's works. Some nice anecdotes also - never knew that the story of Leibniz's marriage is from the Éloge. Herder, according to Catherine Wilson, was also a Leibnizian of sorts. This was also news to me - he even shared a similar picture of human psychology of the Leibniz of New Essays. Robert Merrihew Adams' article on the 20th century reception of Leibniz is more familiar stuff, but of interest is his remark that the Academy-edition does not include a volume for Leibniz's Theological papers which is indeed a little bit strange (to be sure, there are papers belonging to that topic in Philosophical writings). He also speaks nicely about the intellectual fruits of studying Leibniz. 


Btw. The last record I heard was Teenager of the Year by Frank Black.