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The Politics of Obedience

Author : Etienne de la Boetie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479293612
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Obedience written by Etienne de la Boetie and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com Étienne de La Boétie was born in Sarlat, in the Périgord region of southwest France, in 1530, to an aristocratic family, and became a dear friend of Michel de Montaigne. But he ought to be remembered for this astonishingly important essay, one of the greatest in the history of political thought. It will shake the way you think of the state. His thesis and argument amount to the best answer to Machiavelli ever penned as well as one of the seminal essays in defense of liberty.La Boétie's task is to investigate the nature of the state and its strange status as a tiny minority of the population that adheres to different rules from everyone else and claims the authority to rule everyone else, maintaining a monopoly on law. It strikes him as obviously implausible that such an institution has any staying power. It can be overthrown in an instant if people withdraw their consent.He then investigates the mystery as to why people do not withdraw, given what is obvious to him that everyone would be better off without the state. This sends him on a speculative journey to investigate the power of propaganda, fear, and ideology in causing people to acquiesce in their own subjection. Is it cowardice? Perhaps. Habit and tradition. Perhaps. Perhaps it is ideological illusion and intellectual confusion.

The Politics of Obedience the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Author : Etienne De La Boetie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781419278099
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Obedience the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude written by Etienne De La Boetie and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Author : Etienne de La Boetie
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603849122
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude written by Etienne de La Boetie and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant English version of La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, which is both a key to understanding much of Montaigne and a major piece of early modern political thought. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Wrote in French by Stephen de la Boetie. ...

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Wrote in French by Stephen de la Boetie. ... written by Estienne de La Boétie and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Author : Etienne de La Boetie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781542646123
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude written by Etienne de La Boetie and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse on Voluntary ServitudeDiscours sur la servitude volontaire�tienne de La Bo�tieLa Bo�tie's essay against dictators makes stirring reading. A clear analysis of how tyrants get power and maintain it, its simple assumption is that real power always lies in the hands of the people and that they can free themselves from a despot by an act of will unaccompanied by any gesture of violence. The astounding fact about this tract is that in 1948 it was four hundred years old. One would seek hard to find any writing of current times that strips the sham from dictators more vigorously. Better than many modern political thinkers, its author not only reveals the contemptible nature of dictatorships, but he goes on to show, as is aptly stated by the exiled Borgese, "that all servitude is voluntary and the slave is more despicable than the tyrant is hateful." No outraged cry from the past or present points the moral more clearly that Rome was worthy of her Nero, and by inference, Europe of her present little strutters and the agony in which they have engulfed their world. So appropriate to our day is this courageous essay that one's amazement is aroused by the fact that a youth of eighteen really wrote it four centuries ago, with such far-sighted wisdom that his words can resound today as an ever-echoing demand for what is still dearest to mankind.

Selected Essays

Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781603845960
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays written by Michel de Montaigne and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

A Theory of System Justification

Author : John T. Jost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674244656
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of System Justification written by John T. Jost and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychologist John Jost has spent decades researching poor people who vote for policies of inequality and women who think men deserve higher salaries. He argues that the persecuted often justify and defend the very social systems that oppress them because doing so serves a fundamental need for certainty, security, and social acceptance.

Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, The

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610163656
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, The written by Estienne de La Boétie and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1975 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anti-Dictator

Author : Etienne de La Boetie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781839745669
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Dictator written by Etienne de La Boetie and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of Obedience

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Obedience written by Estienne de La Boétie and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of the sixteenth century political philosopher, in reply to Machiavelli's The Prince, seeks to answer the question of why people submit to the tyranny of government, and as such, has exerted an important influence on the traditions of dissidence from Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to Tolstoy, to Gandhi.

A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude written by Estienne de La Boétie and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Author : Estienne de La Boétie
Publisher : Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781603848398
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude written by Estienne de La Boétie and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from James B. Atkinson and David Sices' Montaigne: Selected Essays, this annotated translation of Étienne de La Boétie's political masterpiece offers an ideal opportunity to become acquainted with the thought of a brilliant though short-lived sixteenth-century French thinker known for "his mortal and sworn hatred for all vice," as his friend Michel de Montaigne put it, "but particularly for that sordid traffic concocted under the honorable title of justice." Atkinsons Introduction fleshes out a portrait of the life and work of this Renaissance poet, scholar, and magistrate whose insistence on viewing customary practices with a cold eye made him a beacon of conscience not only for Montaigne but for such later readers of him as Emerson, Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi.

The Plebeian Experience

Author : Martin Breaugh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231520816
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Plebeian Experience written by Martin Breaugh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political subjects. Emerging during the Roman plebs's first secession in 494 BCE, the plebeian experience consists of an underground or unexplored configuration of political strategies to obtain political freedom. The people reject domination through political praxis and concerted action, therefore establishing an alternative form of power. Breaugh's study concludes in the nineteenth century and integrates ideas from sociology, philosophy, history, and political science. Organized around diverse case studies, his work undertakes exercises in political theory to show how concepts provide a different understanding of the meaning of historical events and our political present. The Plebeian Experience describes a recurring phenomenon that clarifies struggles for emancipation throughout history, expanding research into the political agency of the many and shedding light on the richness of radical democratic struggles from ancient Rome to Occupy Wall Street and beyond.

On Friendship

Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651156
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book On Friendship written by Michel de Montaigne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 100-part Penguin Great Ideas series comes a rumination on relationships, courtesy of one of the most influential French Renaissance philosophers. Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on friendship, contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and attempts, by an exploration of himself, to understand the nature of humanity. Penguin Great Ideas: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war, and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked, and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now Penguin Great Ideas brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals, and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Other titles in the series include Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and Charles Darwin's On Natural Selection.

Arbitrary Rule

Author : Mary Nyquist
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022601553X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Arbitrary Rule written by Mary Nyquist and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing tyranny. She argues that as powerful rhetorical and conceptual constructs, Greco-Roman political liberty and slavery reemerge at the time of early modern Eurocolonial expansion; they help to create racialized “free” national identities and their “unfree” counterparts in non-European nations represented as inhabiting an earlier, privative age. Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle political slavery’s discursive complexity, engaging Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas of study too often kept apart. Nyquist proceeds through analyses not only of texts that are canonical in political thought—by Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, and Locke—but also of literary works by Euripides, Buchanan, Vondel, Montaigne, and Milton, together with a variety of colonialist and political writings, with special emphasis on tracts written during the English revolution. She illustrates how “antityranny discourse,” which originated in democratic Athens, was adopted by republican Rome, and revived in early modern Western Europe, provided members of a “free” community with a means of protesting a threatened reduction of privileges or of consolidating a collective, political identity. Its semantic complexity, however, also enabled it to legitimize racialized enslavement and imperial expansion. Throughout, Nyquist demonstrates how principles relating to political slavery and tyranny are bound up with a Roman jurisprudential doctrine that sanctions the power of life and death held by the slaveholder over slaves and, by extension, the state, its representatives, or its laws over its citizenry.

A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Wrote in French by Stephen de la Boetie.

Author : ETIENNE DE. LA BOETIE
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781379872177
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Wrote in French by Stephen de la Boetie. written by ETIENNE DE. LA BOETIE and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T056152 London: printed for T. Smith, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1735. xxiv,83, [1]p.; 12°

Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110731851
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Freedom, Imprisonment, and Slavery in the Pre-Modern World written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to common assumptions, medieval and early modern writers and poets often addressed the high value of freedom, whether we think of such fable authors as Marie de France or Ulrich Bonerius. Similarly, medieval history knows of numerous struggles by various peoples to maintain their own freedom or political independence. Nevertheless, as this study illustrates, throughout the pre-modern period, the loss of freedom could happen quite easily, affecting high and low (including kings and princes) and there are many literary texts and historical documents that address the problems of imprisonment and even enslavement (Georgius of Hungary, Johann Schiltberger, Hans Ulrich Krafft, etc.). Simultaneously, philosophers and theologians discussed intensively the fundamental question regarding free will (e.g., Augustine) and political freedom (e.g., John of Salisbury). Moreover, quite a large number of major pre-modern poets spent a long time in prison where they composed some of their major works (Boethius, Marco Polo, Charles d'Orléans, Thomas Malory, etc.). This book brings to light a vast range of relevant sources that confirm the existence of this fundamental and impactful discourse on freedom, imprisonment, and enslavement.