by Étienne de La Boétie · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070357710
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«Discours de la servitude volontaire» is the philosophical essay by Étienne de La Boétie published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Étienne de La Boétie's essay analyses why peoples accept tyrannical power: submission is due not only to force, but to custom, fear and flattery. La Boétie argues that the tyrant would not dominate without this consent and calls on us to recognise our own freedom and refuse to obey.
It belongs to the Folio Plus Philosophie collection; this edition includes a dossier by Anne Dalsuet and an image reading by Seloua Luste Boulbina.
Recommended for readers interested in political philosophy and in classic thought on power and freedom.
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his relationship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
