@inbook{1ee7ad1072f54739986dd0b50ea4dcf7,
title = "Leibniz{\textquoteright}s Monad: A Study in Melancholy and Harmony",
abstract = "Detachment and absorption are two of melancholia{\textquoteright}s fundamental features. In this paper I try to demonstrate that these features can be productively connected to philosophical thought. I do so by focusing on Leibniz{\textquoteright}s fundamental metaphysical entity, the monad, which I interpret as revealing a melancholic configuration. My reading explores the special structure of the monad{\textquoteright}s encounter with the world, arguing that the structure of the Monad exemplifies the possibility of a productive relation between its utter closure and its philosophical openness to the world entailed in its activity of constant expressing of the world. This relation, I suggest in conclusion, manifests the structure of a metaphysics of mood.",
keywords = "External Reality, Metaphysical Entity, Musical Harmony, Perfect Expression, Phenomenal Content",
author = "Ilit Ferber",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2011, Springer Science+Business Media B.V.",
year = "2011",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1503-5_5",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Contributions To Phenomenology",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "53--68",
booktitle = "Contributions To Phenomenology",
address = "الولايات المتّحدة",
}