Freedom over servitude : Montaigne, La Boétie, and On voluntary servitude / edited by David Lewis Schaefer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schaefer, David Lewis, 1943-

Series:

Contributions in philosophy 0084-926X ; no. 64.

Contributions in philosophy, 0084-926X ; no. 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

La Boétie, Estienne de, 1530-1563. De la servitude volontaire.

La Boétie, Estienne de.

La Boétie, Estienne de, 1530-1563--Authorship.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Authorship.

Montaigne, Michel de.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.

La Boétie, Estienne de, 1530-1563.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

Summary:

Examines the relationship 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Montaigne and La Boetie / David Lewis Schaefer 1

Chapter 2. Montaigne, Of Friendship, and On Tyranny / Michael Platt 31

Chapter 3. The Vanishing Center / Randolph Paul Runyon 87

Chapter 4. Smoke and Mirrors: Covert Dissent in Montaigne's Essays and Overt Dissent in the Discourse On Voluntary Servitude / Regine Reynolds-Cornell 115

Chapter 5. Montaigne, Author of On Voluntary Servitude / Daniel Martin 127

Appendix I Translation of On Voluntary Servitude / David Lewis Schaefer 189

Appendix II Translation of The Twenty-nine Sonnets / Randolph Paul Runyon 223.

Notes:

"Appendix I: Translation of On voluntary servitude": p. 191-222.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-244) and index.

Contains:

La Boétie, Estienne de, 1530-1563. De la servitude volontaire. English

ISBN:

0313305277

OCLC:

38520375