Anarchism & Voluntary Servitude (extended cut) | Anarchism in 2min 20sec #13 | Saul Newman
Channel: Anarchism Research Group Loughborough
Date: 2021-11-16

This is an extended version of the 13th video in our short intros to anarchist studies series. Saul Newman discusses French humanist thinker Étienne de La Boétie's idea of voluntary servitude, exploring what it might mean for how anarchists understand freedom from domination.

Saul Newman is Professor of Political Theory. He joined the Department in 2006. His work is in the area of continental political theory as applied to a study of contemporary forms of radical politics. He coined the term ‘postanarchism’ to describe new post-statist forms of political activism. His research has also led him to an exploration of sovereignty, political theology, democracy and post-secularism, autonomy and freedom, human rights and statelessness. He has also written widely on the nineteenth century German thinker Max Stirner, and he published the first ever edited collection on Stirner’s thought in the English language. Saul Newman is Co-director of the Research Unit for Contemporary Political Theory.

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