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

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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 Boetie, 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 Boetie'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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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-31
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCycles
Antal sidor272
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399545501

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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.