On Voluntary Servitude

Author : Etienne de la Boetie,Murray N. Rothbard,Harry Kurz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 147929361X

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The Politics of Obedience by Etienne de la Boetie,Murray N. Rothbard,Harry Kurz Pdf

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com Étienne de La Boétie was born in Sarlat, in the Périgord region of southwest France, in 1530, to an aristocratic family, and became a dear friend of Michel de Montaigne. But he ought to be remembered for this astonishingly important essay, one of the greatest in the history of political thought. It will shake the way you think of the state. His thesis and argument amount to the best answer to Machiavelli ever penned as well as one of the seminal essays in defense of liberty.La Boétie's task is to investigate the nature of the state and its strange status as a tiny minority of the population that adheres to different rules from everyone else and claims the authority to rule everyone else, maintaining a monopoly on law. It strikes him as obviously implausible that such an institution has any staying power. It can be overthrown in an instant if people withdraw their consent.He then investigates the mystery as to why people do not withdraw, given what is obvious to him that everyone would be better off without the state. This sends him on a speculative journey to investigate the power of propaganda, fear, and ideology in causing people to acquiesce in their own subjection. Is it cowardice? Perhaps. Habit and tradition. Perhaps. Perhaps it is ideological illusion and intellectual confusion.

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Allegiance
ISBN : 091415611X

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The Politics of Obedience by Estienne de La Boétie Pdf

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745678078

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On Voluntary Servitude by Michael Rosen Pdf

This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?

Author : Etienne de La Boetie
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603849128

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Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boetie Pdf

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

Author : Marc D. Schachter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754664597

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Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship by Marc D. Schachter Pdf

Focusing primarily on three early modern French authors, this book explores the erotics and politics of voluntary servitude in classical antiquity and the early modern period through Michel Foucault's late work on governmentality and the care of the self. Marc Schachter explores how these authors-Étienne de La Boétie, Michel de Montaigne, and Marie de Gournay-pursue related inquiries into voluntary servitude and self-control in marriage, friendship, pederasty, and politics.

Author : Etienne de La Boetie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154264612X

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Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de La Boetie Pdf

Discourse on Voluntary ServitudeDiscours sur la servitude volontaire�tienne de La Bo�tieLa Bo�tie's essay against dictators makes stirring reading. A clear analysis of how tyrants get power and maintain it, its simple assumption is that real power always lies in the hands of the people and that they can free themselves from a despot by an act of will unaccompanied by any gesture of violence. The astounding fact about this tract is that in 1948 it was four hundred years old. One would seek hard to find any writing of current times that strips the sham from dictators more vigorously. Better than many modern political thinkers, its author not only reveals the contemptible nature of dictatorships, but he goes on to show, as is aptly stated by the exiled Borgese, "that all servitude is voluntary and the slave is more despicable than the tyrant is hateful." No outraged cry from the past or present points the moral more clearly that Rome was worthy of her Nero, and by inference, Europe of her present little strutters and the agony in which they have engulfed their world. So appropriate to our day is this courageous essay that one's amazement is aroused by the fact that a youth of eighteen really wrote it four centuries ago, with such far-sighted wisdom that his words can resound today as an ever-echoing demand for what is still dearest to mankind.

Author : Jack Rinella
Publisher : Jack Rinella
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780940267206

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Becoming a Slave by Jack Rinella Pdf

Becoming a Slave is an authoritative, and well-documented book on the process of finding and submitting to a dominant. Beginning with a description of terms and the characteristics to be found in a master and in a slave, the book continues with how one realizes and understands their own desire to submit and serve, proceeds to the process of advertising, searching, meeting, and interviewing prospective masters, and ends with a great deal of practical advice on submitting, serving, and satisfying a dominant in a healthy and practical way.

Author : Mark Wunderlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015060121632

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Voluntary Servitude by Mark Wunderlich Pdf

A chilling and masterful second poetry collection by the author of the award-winning The Anchorage.

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Allegiance
ISBN : 9781610163651

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Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, The by Estienne de La Boétie Pdf

Author : Beatriz P. Lorente
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783099016

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Scripts of Servitude by Beatriz P. Lorente Pdf

This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. It sheds light on the everyday lives of transnational domestic workers and how they draw on their linguistic repertoires, and in particular on English, as they cross geographical and social spaces. By showing how the transnational mobility of labor is dependent on the selection and performance of particular assemblages of linguistic resources that index migrants as labor and not as people, the book provides a powerful lens with which to examine how migration contributes to relationships of inequality and how such inequalities are produced and challenged on the terrain of language.

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002619265

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The Politics of Obedience by Estienne de La Boétie Pdf

This classic work of the sixteenth century political philosopher, in reply to Machiavelli's The Prince, seeks to answer the question of why people submit to the tyranny of government, and as such, has exerted an important influence on the traditions of dissidence from Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to Tolstoy, to Gandhi.

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1735
Category : Liberty
ISBN : OCLC:15246198

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A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Estienne de La Boétie Pdf

Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1603845968

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Selected Essays by Michel de Montaigne Pdf

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Author : Etienne de La Boetie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1839745665

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Anti-Dictator by Etienne de La Boetie Pdf

Author : David Lewis Schaefer
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015049686101

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Freedom Over Servitude by David Lewis Schaefer Pdf

This volume contains five articles by prominent scholars of French literature and political philosophy that examine the relation between Montaigne's Essays, one of the classic works of the French philosophical and literary traditions, and the writings attributed by Montaigne to his friend, the French humanist Etienne de La Boétie's. Three contributors to the volume suggest that Montaigne was the real author of the revolutionary tract On Voluntary Servitude, along with the other works he attributed to La Boétie's. Two contributors describe the remarkable mathematical and/or mythological patterns found in both the Essays and the works ascribed to La Boétie's. Several essays articulate the revolutionary political teaching found in the Essays as well as On Voluntary Servitude, challenging the conventional view of Montaigne as a political conservative. And all the contributors challenge the received view that he was an artless or nonchalant writer. The volume also includes new translations of both On Voluntary Servitude and the 29 Sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie that Montaigne included in all editions of the Essays except the final one. An important work for students and scholars of political philosophy, Renaissance history, and French and comparative literature.