{"product_id":"book-mu5t","title":"Leibniz’s Monads","description":"\u003cp\u003eEver wondered what reality is made of? If you're thinking atoms, molecules, or maybe regret and caffeine, think again. According to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—17th-century genius, calculus co-inventor, and metaphysical madlad—the universe is made of tiny, windowless soul-particles called monads. They don’t touch, don’t talk, and yet still manage to reflect the entire cosmos like cosmic disco balls of divine insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Leibniz’s Monads: Because Particles with Feelings Totally Make Sense, Sophia Blackwell (author of Kant You Not) returns with another brutally honest, laugh-out-loud, actually-informative tour through one of philosophy’s weirdest, most ambitious systems. From the problem of evil to quantum physics, ecology to ethics, this book unpacks Leibniz’s windowless wonders and shows how his soul-marbles still haunt modern science, spirituality, and your existential crisis at 2am.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for students, armchair philosophers, or anyone who wants to understand metaphysics without crying in German.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you’ll learn:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat monads are (and why they’re basically metaphysical Tamagotchis)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy your soul is pre-synced with the universe like a divine group project\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow this is somehow the best possible world (yes, even with all of… this)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat quantum physics, computer science, and modern consciousness studies owe to a guy who never left Leipzig\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd why Leibniz remains philosophy’s most lovable, logic-obsessed optimist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you like philosophy that doesn’t take itself too seriously—but still takes ideas seriously—this book is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarning: May cause sudden belief in soul-particles. Or at least very polite existential confusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49793736507696,"sku":"BDmu5t","price":6.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/727010-mu5t-Square.jpg?v=1746853859","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-mu5t","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}