Voluntary servitude and the erotics of friendship
Subtitle: from classical antiquity to early modern France
By: by Marc D. Schachter.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780754664598
Subjects: La Boétie, Estienne de, -- 1530-1563; Liberty; Power (Social sciences)
Description: "Focusing primarily on three early modern French authors, this book explores the interdependent erotics and politics of "voluntary servitude" in classical antiquity and the early modern period. These authors - Etienne de La Boetie, Michel de Montaigne and Marie de Gournay - pursue related inquiries into voluntary servitude and self-control in marriage, friendship, pederasty and politics, often through their encounters with classical texts by Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Voluntary servitude, governmentality and the care of the self; title: Voluntary servitude and the politics of pederasty in Plato's symposium; title: Critique and governmentality in La Boétie's Mesnagerie de Xenophon and Servitude volontaire; title: Montaigne's voluntary liberty and the politics of friendship; title: Friendly usurpations : Gournay and Montaigne; title: The erotics of friendship and the politics of love; title: The art of voluntary inservitude.