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Michael Della Rocca's work is consistently exciting, engaging, and bold. It is more than that, in fact: it is courageous...I like that even as he is offending me, he is on a genuine mission to shake things up in contemporary philosophy, to unsettle established orthodoxies and to disallow the perpetuation of normal science, and to do all this, moreover, by bringing the history of philosophy to bear on philosophy in original ways. This is the kind of material that it is fun to disagree with: serious, passionate, and always interesting. * Justin E.H. Smith, Universite Paris Diderot - Paris 7 * The 'Parmenidean ascent' that Della Rocca spells out is radical and unorthodox. It might even come as a shock to many philosophers who consider Parmenides' extreme monism to be a position that is only of historical interest. Della Rocca defends it from a contemporary point of view, claiming that it is the position we have to embrace if we really subscribe to rationalism. But he is fully aware that most philosophers, especially those working in the analytical tradition, will reject it. But this is exactly what makes this book so fascinating. It does not simply add some details to an ongoing debate, nor does it criticize or amend some parts of a given theory, but radically challenges the foundation of most debates in contemporary philosophy. * Dominik Perler, Humboldt University * The Parmenidean Ascent is an ode to the joy of philosophizing with the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). It is a major contribution to rationalist metaphysics and its history. But it also undermines the intellectual complacency that has seeped into analytic philosophy by using the tools familiar to analytic philosophy. It does so by revealing a feature hidden in plain sight: that much of 'core' analytic philosophy today understands itself as in the business of meeting explanatory demands. So it is already in the ambit of the PSR, and there is no place to run. * Eric Schliesser, University of Amsterdam *

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Michael Della Rocca is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he has taught since 1991. Della Rocca received his B.A. from Harvard and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author or editor of three books on Spinoza and of numerous articles in early modern philosophy and in contemporary metaphysics.

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