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In 1550, Etienne de La Boetie wrote his classic work of
political reflection, "Discourse of Voluntary Servitude," which
laid the ground work for the concept of civil disobedience, and as
such, has exerted an important influence on the traditions of
dissidence from Thoreau and Ralph Emerson, to Tolstoy, to
Gandhi.
Along with the complete text of "Discourse of Voluntary
Servitude," this edition includes a comprehensive 100-page
biography, written by 19th century author Paul Bonnefon, on the
life and times of de La Boetie. It was the only one ever written,
and it has never before been published in English.
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This annotated translation of Etienne de La Boetie's political
masterpiece offers an ideal opportunity to become acquainted with
the thought of a brilliant though short-lived 16th-century French
thinker known for 'his mortal and sworn hatred for all vice, ' as
his friend Michel de Montaigne put it, 'but particularly for that
sordid traffic concocted under the honorable title of justice'."
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT056152London: printed
for T. Smith, and sold by the booksellers of London and
Westminster, 1735. xxiv,83, 1]p.; 12
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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Etienne de La Boetie was born in Sarlat, in the Perigord 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 Boetie'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.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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