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Monadological Intimacy: The Relational Operation of Folds in Leibniz and Deleuze analyzes and explains G.W. Leibniz’s theories of folds and relations to claim there is a common operation of inclusion inherent to both theories, an operation that produces a uniquely monadic form of intimacy. Utilizing key insights from Gilles Deleuze’s The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque, Jeff Lambert considers the role of what is “virtual” and “ideal” for Leibniz in his theory of relations. However, Deleuze’s interpretation is not without flaws, and this book proposes an understanding of the operations of inclusion that is quite different from the view given by Deleuze in The Fold. Specifically, Lambert contends that relational inclusion has four primary “orders” that coincide with the four types of relations found across Leibniz’s oeuvre: complexion, comparison, congruence, and concurrence. Throughout each order of relations, different forms of interconnection play out through an intimate and immediate representation of the universe. Monadological Intimacy argues that the intimate and immediate representation of the universe within each monad utilizes the same operation of inclusion at work in how Leibniz describes the ideal continuum in each distinct fold of motion.

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"""In Monadological Intimacy: The Relational Operation of Folds in Leibniz and Deleuze, Jeff Lambert develops a novel and systematic articulation of Leibniz's metaphysics that is robust, subtle, and meticulously argued. Carefully explicating and threading together Leibnizian thematics including the fold and complexion, ideality and virtuality, the problem of the continuum and the theory of relations, Lambert comes to elaborate a concept of intimacy that not only illuminates Leibniz's philosophy but points beyond it toward a genuine ethical horizon. Monadological Intimacy is a rewarding work of philosophical scholarship and creativity."" --Gil Morej�n, Grinnell College"

"""In Monadological Intimacy: The Relational Operation of Folds in Leibniz and Deleuze, Jeff Lambert develops a novel and systematic articulation of Leibniz's metaphysics that is robust, subtle, and meticulously argued. Carefully explicating and threading together Leibnizian thematics including the fold and complexion, ideality and virtuality, the problem of the continuum and the theory of relations, Lambert comes to elaborate a concept of intimacy that not only illuminates Leibniz's philosophy but points beyond it toward a genuine ethical horizon. Monadological Intimacy is a rewarding work of philosophical scholarship and creativity."""

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Jeff Lambert is assistant director for educational development at the Center for Teaching Excellence at Duquesne University, where he also teaches a range of philosophy courses.

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