Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

by Etienne de La Boetie, James B. Atkinson (Translator), David Sices (Translator)

Overview

An elegant English version of La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, which is both a key to understanding much of Montaigne and a major piece of early modern political thought. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781624660269
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/15/2012
Series:	Hackett Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

James B. Atkinson is an independent scholar. David Sices is Professor Emeritus of French and Italian, Dartmouth College.

Editorial Reviews

An excellent translation: clear, crisp and accurate. The introduction is also a helpful contextualization of the text, Boétie's relation to Montaigne, and a brief discussion of the history of this important text on non-cooperation in the 20th-Century. I highly recommend it for courses in the history of political theory and of non-cooperation as a means of regime change. —James Tully, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria

A powerful rendition of La Boetie's soldierly prose (as Montaigne would have it). . . . With this unassuming book, the authors have not only offered a solid introduction to Étienne de La Boétie and his legacy, but also passed on to us a living document (Harry Kurz) which may yet find resonance in our own troubled times. —Jeremie Korta, Harvard University, in Sixteenth Century Journal

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