Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Hackett Classics) - Hardcover

La Boetie, Etienne De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603848401 ISBN 13: 9781603848404

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2012

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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

Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1603848401
• ISBN 13: 9781603848404
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96