Examines the relationship between Montaigne's Essays, 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 Boetie.
Preface
Montaigne and La Boétie by David Lewis Schaefer
Friendship and Tyranny by Michael Platt
The Vanishing Center by Randolph Runyon
Smoke and Mirrors by Régine Reynolds-Cornell
Montaigne, Author of On Voluntary Servitude by Daniel Martin
Appendix I: Translation of On Voluntary Servitude
Appendix II: Translation of The Twenty-Nine Sonnets
Bibliography
Index
DAVID LEWIS SCHAEFER is Professor of Political Science at Holy Cross College. Among his previous publications are The Political Philosophy of Montaigne (1990) and his co-edited Sir Henry Taylor's The Statesman (Praeger, 1992).
"In this book the political views of Montaigne are analyzed in a
most profitable and provocative way. Scholars will have to
reconsider the common assumption which tends to paint Montaigne as
a conservative. Overall we have here a collaborative endeavour
which will challenge accepted readings of Montaigne and La
Boetie."-Philippe Desan Howard L. Willett Professor of History of
Culture Associate Dean, Humanities Division University of
Chicago
"This book of essays clarifies the political inspiration of
Montaigne's Essais. Insofar as the Essais were the breviary of the
eighteenth century philosophes who provided the conceptual ground
for the American and French Revolutions, it cannot be underscored
enough that Montaigne's politics continue to exert influence on our
lives and times. The scholars contributing to this volume
demonstrate that Etienne de la Boetie's terse pamphlet that
sketched out a logic of tyrannicide was not a piece of juvenile
rhetoric. It was a precocious tract with which Montaigne shared
strong affiliation....No student of the relation of politics and
aesthetics in early modern Europe will fail to profit from the
careful and inspired work of the authors."-Tom Conley Professor of
Romance Languages and Literatures Harvard University
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