FA:: The Politics of Obedience, Voluntary Servitude, TPB
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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Etienne de la Boetie
Etienne de la Boetie was a sixteenth century political philosopher and close
friend of Montaigne. He laid the groundwork for the concept of civil
disobedience within his proposal that people could cut the bonds of habit
and corruption that keep them obedient and complacent. This classic work of
political reflection seeks to answer the question of why people submit to
the tyranny of governments, and as such, has exerted an important influence
on the traditions of dissidence from Thoreau and Ralph Emerson, to Tolstoy,
to Ghandi. Introduction by Murray N. Rothbard, translation by Harry Kurz.
Black Rose Books, Montreal Canada, 1997, 88 pages, 5 ź" x 8 ź", trade
paperback.
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