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Ursula GoldenbaumProfessor Emeritus

Education

  • PhD, Academy of Science of the GDR, 1983
  • Habilitation, Technische Universität, Berlin, 2001

Current Work

Currently working on a book about Leibniz and his reasons of turning from law to metaphysics and mathematics.

Honors and grants

  • Since 2014 President of the Leibniz Society of North America
  • Member of the board of the Deutsche Spinoza-Gesellschaft (1992-98)
  • grants and fellowships from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, from the Technische Universität and from the Thyssen-Stiftung.
  • Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (2007-08).
  • Since 2009 Member of the Board of the Journal of the History of Ideas

Research

History of philosophy, science, Political philosophy, and esthetics during the 17th and 18th centuries, European Enlightenment and the Origin of the Public Space.

Selected Publications

  • Author of
    • Ein Plädoyer für die Echtheit des angeblich gefälschten Leibnizbriefes (Hannover: Wehrhahn 2015)
    • Appell an das Publikum. Die öffentliche Debatte in der deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796. 2 vol. (Akademie Verlag, 2004)
    • Einführung in die Philosophie Spinozas (Hagen, 1993).
  • Editor of
    • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Philosophische Schriften und Briefe (Berlin, 1992)
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Von der Ungleichheit unter den Menschen. Transl. by Moses Mendelssohn. (Weimar, 2000).
  • Co-edited with Christopher Kluz: Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems (Lexington 2015).
  • Co-editor of Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (de Gruyter, 2008).
  • Research articles in
    • Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science
    • Euphorion
    • Lessing Yearbook
    • Revue Roumaine de Philosophie
    • Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
    • The Leibniz Review
    • Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie
    • Studia Leibnitiana
    • Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
    • Dialektik
    • Revue Germanique Internationale
    • American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
    • Theologische Literaturzeitung
    • Zeitschrift für historische Forschung.