Freedom Over Servitude: Montaigne, La Boetie and "On Voluntary Servitude" (Contributions in Philosophy (Hardcover)) (Hardback) Edited by David Lewis Schaefer, Edited by Michael Platt, Edited by Randolph Paul Runyon, Edited by Regine Reynolds-Cornell, Edited by Daniel Martin

Full bibliographic data for Freedom Over Servitude

Title

Freedom Over Servitude

Subtitle

Montaigne, La Boetie and "On Voluntary Servitude"

Authors and contributors

Edited by David Lewis Schaefer, Edited by Michael Platt, Edited by Randolph Paul Runyon, Edited by Regine Reynolds-Cornell, Edited by Daniel Martin

Physical properties

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 264
Width: 152 mm
Height: 229 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight: 559 g

Audience

College/higher education
General/trade
Professional and scholarly

Language

English

ISBN

ISBN 13: 9780313305276
ISBN 10: 0313305277

Classifications

Dewey: 323.44
BIC subject category: HPC
BIC language qualifier (language as subject): 2ADF
Dewey: 194
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T3.7
BISAC category code: POL010000
BISAC category code: PHI019000

Illustrations note

black & white illustrations

Publisher

ABC-CLIO

Imprint name

Greenwood Press

Publication date

24 November 1998

Publication City/Country

Westport/US

Main description

Contributors from political science and literature ponder the relation among Montaigne's (1533-92) Essays, a classic work of the French philosophical and literary traditions; the writings he attributed to his friend French jurist and humanist Etienne de La Boetie (1530-63); and the radical tract On Voluntary Servitude, published anonymously in 1570. Some look at the similarities among them; others go so far as to suggest that Montaigne wrote all of them. Their overall treatment, however, suggests revised conclusions: Montaigne was not a political conservative, he was a systematic thinker and writer, and he intended the Essays as a public project to help transform Europe from servitude to freedom. Translations of the tract and of Boetie's sonnets are appended. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Review quote

"This book of essays clarifies the political inspiration of Montaigne's Essais. Insofar as the Essais were the breviary of the eighteenth century philosophes who provided the conceptual ground for the American and French Revolutions, it cannot be underscored enough that Montaigne's politics continue to exert influence on our lives and times. The scholars contributing to this volume demonstrate that Etienne de la Boetie's terse pamphlet that sketched out a logic of tyrannicide was not a piece of juvenile rhetoric. It was a precocious tract with which Montaigne shared strong affiliation....No student of the relation of politics and aesthetics in early modern Europe will fail to profit from the careful and inspired work of the authors."-Tom Conley Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University