
Freedom Over Servitude
Montaigne, La Boetie, and On Voluntary Servitude
David Lewis Schaefer(Author)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 24. November 1998
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-313-30527-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains five articles by prominent scholars of French literature and political philosophy that examine the relation between Montaigne's Essays, one of the classic works of the French philosophical and literary traditions, and the writings attributed by Montaigne to his friend, the French humanist Etienne de La Boetie's.
Three contributors to the volume suggest that Montaigne was the real author of the revolutionary tract On Voluntary Servitude, along with the other works he attributed to La Boetie's. Two contributors describe the remarkable mathematical and/or mythological patterns found in both the Essays and the works ascribed to La Boetie's. Several essays articulate the revolutionary political teaching found in the Essays as well as On Voluntary Servitude, challenging the conventional view of Montaigne as a political conservative. And all the contributors challenge the received view that he was an artless or nonchalant writer. The volume also includes new translations of both On Voluntary Servitude and the 29 Sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie that Montaigne included in all editions of the Essays except the final one. An important work for students and scholars of political philosophy, Renaissance history, and French and comparative literature.
Three contributors to the volume suggest that Montaigne was the real author of the revolutionary tract On Voluntary Servitude, along with the other works he attributed to La Boetie's. Two contributors describe the remarkable mathematical and/or mythological patterns found in both the Essays and the works ascribed to La Boetie's. Several essays articulate the revolutionary political teaching found in the Essays as well as On Voluntary Servitude, challenging the conventional view of Montaigne as a political conservative. And all the contributors challenge the received view that he was an artless or nonchalant writer. The volume also includes new translations of both On Voluntary Servitude and the 29 Sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie that Montaigne included in all editions of the Essays except the final one. An important work for students and scholars of political philosophy, Renaissance history, and French and comparative literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
584 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-30527-6 (9780313305276)
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DAVID LEWIS SCHAEFER is Professor of Political Science at Holy Cross College. Among his previous publications are The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (1990) and his co-edited Sir Henry Taylor's The Statesman (Praeger, 1992).
Content
Preface Montaigne and La Boetie by David Lewis Schaefer Friendship and Tyranny by Michael Platt The Vanishing Center by Randolph Runyon Smoke and Mirrors by REgine Reynolds-Cornell Montaigne, Author of On Voluntary Servitude by Daniel Martin Appendix I: Translation of On Voluntary Servitude Appendix II: Translation of The Twenty-Nine Sonnets Bibliography Index