The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-967751-11-2
Verlag: ERIS

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 20 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 109 mm x 196 mm, Gewicht: 28 g

Reihe: ERIS gems

“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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boetie, Etienne De La

Boétie, Étienne de La

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kurz, Harry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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.