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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
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"There are only four or five who maintain the dictator… not the six thousand but a hundred thousand, and even millions, cling to the tyrant by this cord to which they are tied." Tyranny is not imposed; it is invited. The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude maps...
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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear.
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Description
"There are only four or five who maintain the dictator… not the six thousand but a hundred thousand, and even millions, cling to the tyrant by this cord to which they are tied."
Tyranny is not imposed; it is invited. The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude maps how power metastasises through favours, flattery, and fear—how millions bend the knee so a few can rise.
A cold, lucid anatomy of submission, and a quiet, devastating call to end it.
Series: ERIS gems
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781967751112
Publisher: ERIS
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 November 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: ERIS
DIMENSIONS
Width: 109.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 20
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About the Author
Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) was a French magistrate, political theorist, and close friend of Michel de Montaigne. Best known for The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, written when he was just eighteen, La Boétie posed a radical question that still echoes today: why do people submit to power that exploits them? Though he died young, his work quietly seeded the modern tradition of civil disobedience.
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