Freedom Over Servitude
Subtitle: Montaigne, La Boetie, and On Voluntary Servitude (Contributions in Philosophy)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: November 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780313305276
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Political Theory; Political Science; French; Philosophy; History & Theory - General; Political; La Boetie, Estienne de; Montaigne, Michel de; Political Science / History & Theory; 1530-1563; 1530-1563.; 1533-1592; Authorship; De la servitude volontaire; La Boetie, Estienne de,; La Boâetie, Estienne de,; Montaigne, Michel de,
First sentence: A literally "central" mystery about Montaigne's Essays concerns its relation to the "discourse" titled On Voluntary Servitude, which Montaigne describes and attributes to his friend Etienne de La Boétie in his twenty-eighth chapter, On Friendship.