Sam Bootle

Sam Bootle is a doctoral student at Birkbeck College, London. He is working on Jules Laforgue's encounter with the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann, with a focus on how this encounter was conditioned by ideas of otherness. His approach encompasses both close reading and intellectual history. The principal themes of his thesis are Franco-German relations in the 1870s and 1880s, the reception of Buddhism, exoticism and the Unconscious.