Title: Voluntary servitude and the erotics of friendship
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.
Subjects: Liberty, Power (Social sciences), Servitudes, Male homosexuality, Friendship in literature, Friendship, Liberté, Pouvoir (Sciences sociales), Freedom, PHILOSOPHY, Free Will & Determinism, De la servitude volontaire (La Boétie, Estienne de)
People: Estienne de La Boétie (1530-1563)