Estienne de La Boétie

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.

The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

The Politics of Obedience

Mehmet Ali Ağaoğulları

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Anti-dictator

A late 19th century colletcion of his Works with a long introductory essay. It contains Boétie's best known work, the "Discours de la servitude volontaire" where he explores why the majority too often willingly capitulates to the demands of a tiny ruling minority, some translations of Xenophon and Plutarch, his own poems in French and Latin, and some letters by his friend Montaigne.

Estienne de La Boétie

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