Étienne de La Boétie
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Étienne de La Boétie (Sarlat, November 1st, 1530 - Germignan, August 18, 1563) was a French judge and writer, friend of Montaigne, author of the Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (Discours de la servitude volontaire).
He served with Montaigne in the Bordeaux parlement and is immortalized in Montaigne’s essay on friendship. La Boétie’s writings include a few sonnets, translations from the classics, and an essay attacking absolute monarchy and tyranny in general, Discours de la servitude volontaire, in which he stated that tyrants have power because the people give it to them. Liberty has been abandoned once by society, which afterward stay corrupted and prefers the slavery of the courtisan to the freedom of one who refuses to dominate as he refuses to obey. Thus, La Boétie linked together obedience and domination, a relationship which would be later theorized by anarchist thinkers such as Proudhon.
External links
- Text on Wikisource (French)
- http://www.forget-me.net/LaBoetie/ (PDF, LaTeX format)
Bibliography
- Œuvres complètes, Editions William Blake & Co., 1991. ISBN 2-905810602
- Discours de la servitude volontaire, Editions Mille et une nuits, 1997. ISBN 2-910233944
- Discours de la servitude volontaire, Editions Flammarion, 1993. ISBN 2-080703943
- The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude with an introduction by Murray Rothbard, Free Life Editions, 1975. ISBN 0-914156-11-X
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