Leibniz’s Critique of the Politics of Fear Revisited in the Time of Crisis

• In Event: Crisis, Fear, Faction, and Compromise

Brief Overview

My paper aims to review G. W. Leibniz’s critique of the early modern political philosophy, articulated by Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Pufendorf, who commonly took the emotion of fear as foundation of civil society.

Author

• Ki-Won Hong, Korea University