{"product_id":"freedom-over-servitude","title":"Freedom Over Servitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains five articles by prominent scholars of French literature and political philosophy that examine the relation between Montaigne's \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 Boétie's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree contributors to the volume suggest that Montaigne was the real author of the revolutionary tract \u003ci\u003eOn Voluntary Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e, along with the other works he attributed to La Boétie's. Two contributors describe the remarkable mathematical and\/or mythological patterns found in both the \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e and the works ascribed to La Boétie's. Several essays articulate the revolutionary political teaching found in the \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eOn Voluntary Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e, challenging the conventional view of Montaigne as a political conservative. And all the contributors challenge the received view that he was an artless or nonchalant writer. The volume also includes new translations of both \u003ci\u003eOn Voluntary Servitude\u003c\/i\u003e and the 29 Sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie that Montaigne included in all editions of the \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e except the final one. An important work for students and scholars of political philosophy, Renaissance history, and French and comparative literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54219472470360,"sku":"9780313305276","price":82.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780313305276__67c1ec44cf031_c8c61cd0-e689-43ed-9751-60d4ceeac74a.jpg?v=1741158024","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/freedom-over-servitude","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}