The Politics of Obedience

The Politics of Obedience

The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Estienne de La Boétie

88 pages· 1997· ISBN 9781551640884
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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.

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