{"title":"Willi Goetschel","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilli Goetschel's works explore profound questions in \u003cstrong\u003ephilosophy and psychology\u003c\/strong\u003e, delving into themes of difference and alterity through the lens of historical and contemporary thinkers. His writing invites readers to engage with complex ideas on identity, otherness, and the dynamics of human understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on figures such as La Boétie, Montaigne, Spinoza, and Mendelssohn, Goetschel offers thoughtful analyses that enrich the study of philosophy's role in shaping social and intellectual discourse. His books are essential for those interested in the intersections of philosophy, psychology, and cultural thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"difference-and-alterity-in-la-boetie-montaigne-spinoza-and-mendelssohn-by-willi-goetschel-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 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397811126508,"sku":"9781399545501","price":630.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/956b28d9e9b2797287d46b96e3b4ae10.jpg?v=1773778401"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/willi-goetschel.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}