Description: Traces a shared critical agenda highlighting the emancipatory force of difference and otherness.
Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: Willi Goetschel's central claim, that familiar texts can be reconsidered and less familiar texts can be seen in a new constellation, leads to a compelling case for seeing human difference and alterity as central issues in a period marked by colonial projects, religious conflicts, and complex cultural exchanges. Goetschel examines a history of resistant texts that deserve renewed scrutiny.--Julie R. Klein, Villanova University