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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude - Paperback

by Étienne de la Boétie
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Availability:In StockContributor:Étienne de la Boétie, Harry Kurz (Translator)Series:Eris Gems #1Publish date:11/18/2025Pages:20
Language:EnglishPublisher:ErisISBN-13:9781967751112ISBN-10:1967751110UPC:9781967751112Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, History & Theory, SocialSize:7.70 x 4.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.0507Product ID:SCG77Q0HCD

"There are only four or five who maintain the dictator... not the six thousand but a hundred thousand, and even millions, cling to the tyrant by this cord to which they are tied."

Tyranny is not imposed; it is invited. La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear--how millions bend the knee so a few can rise. A cold, lucid anatomy of submission, and a quiet, devastating call to end it.
Language:EnglishPublisher:ErisISBN-13:9781967751112ISBN-10:1967751110UPC:9781967751112Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, History & Theory, SocialSize:7.70 x 4.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.0507Product ID:SCG77Q0HCD
Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) was a French magistrate, political theorist, and close friend of Michel de Montaigne. Best known for The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, written when he was just eighteen, La Boétie posed a radical question that still echoes today: why do people submit to power that exploits them? Though he died young, his work quietly seeded the modern tradition of civil disobedience.
Publisher: Eris

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Étienne de la Boétie, Harry Kurz (Translator)

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Étienne de la Boétie

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