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Willi Goetschel - Difference and Alterity in La Boétie, Montaigne, Spinoza and Mendelssohn, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Difference and Alterity in La Boétie, Montaigne, Spinoza and Mendelssohn

Av Willi Goetschel

Del i serien Cycles

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This book redirects our attention to a group of thinkers whose project of rethinking difference and alterity assumes new critical significance at the current juncture. Reaching from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the interventions of La Boétie, Montaigne, Spinoza and Mendelssohn are not just history (albeit one problematically assimilated to canonical views), but offer new resources for moving past the politics of tolerance, charity, and recognition.These thinkers argue for an understanding of otherness that renegotiates the terms of difference and alterity more radically as the conditions of our own existence. From La Boétie’s exposure of ‘voluntary servitude’ as the mechanism behind the tyranny of despotic authority, to the ideas of Montaigne, Spinoza and Mendelssohn, these thinkers argue for the critical importance of the deep constitutive nexus between self and other: identity, difference and otherness.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-31
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Cycles
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399545532
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Willi Goetschel is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Heine and Critical Theory (Bloomsbury, 2019), The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought (Fordham, 2013), Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine (Wisconsin, 2004) and Constituting Critique: Kant’s Writing as Critical Praxis (Duke, 1994).

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In this engagingly written and deeply erudite study, Goetschel stages a compelling conversation between Boétie, Montaigne, Spinoza, and Mendelssohn on difference and alterity. Through his impressively skilful tracking of the movement of the liberatory and constructive potentialities of alterity and difference in their writings, Goetschel reveals the power of this constellation of thinkers to profoundly reframe contemporary thought.

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