Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics

Dyck focusses on Christian Wolff's German Metaphysics. Wolff's metaphysics is interpreted within the wider intellectual context, and its impact - including among women intellectuals in the period - and critical reception is considered in comprehensive detail and with an unprecedented mixture of philosophical rigour and historical sensitivity.

Auteur

Corey W. Dyck is Professor of Philosophy at Western University. He is the author of Kant and Rational Psychology, the translator and editor of Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750), and editor of the collection Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany. He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he was also recently an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.