{"product_id":"difference-and-alterity-in-la-bozstie-montaigne-spinoza-and-mendelssohn-9781399545501","title":"Difference and Alterity in La Boétie, Montaigne, Spinoza and Mendelssohn","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoetschel, Willi:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Willi Goetschel is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeine and Critical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019), \u003ci\u003eThe Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eModern Jewish Thought \u003c\/i\u003e(Fordham, 2013), \u003ci\u003eSpinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine\u003c\/i\u003e (Wisconsin, 2004) and \u003ci\u003eConstituting Critique: Kant's Writing as Critical Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 1994).","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057755779346,"sku":"9781399545501","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5dd5d39d-f560-4831-b9d4-cde48818f0fd.jpg?v=1772005157","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/difference-and-alterity-in-la-bozstie-montaigne-spinoza-and-mendelssohn-9781399545501","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}