Etienne de La Boetie

Drawn from James B. Atkinson and David Sices' Montaigne: Selected Essays, this annotated translation of Étienne de La Boétie's political masterpiece offers an ideal opportunity to become acquainted with the thought of a brilliant though short-lived sixteenth-century French thinker. He is known for "his mortal and sworn hatred for all vice," as his friend Michel de Montaigne put it, "but...