Étienne de La Boétie e la servitù volontaria. Antologia di interpretazioni critiche

2015 ◽  
pp. 91-118
Author(s):  
Camilla Emmenegger ◽  
Francesco Gallino ◽  
Daniele Gorgone
Keyword(s):  
Etienne De La Boetie

Notas sobre a natureza, a liberdade e a tirania no discurso da servidão voluntária de Étienne de La Boétie

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (23) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
André Constantino Yazbek
Keyword(s):  
Etienne De La Boetie

Partindo de temas da obediência política e da soberania, o objetivo deste texto é o de apresentar os vínculos entre as noções de natureza, liberdade e tirania no célebre opúsculo intitulado Discurso da servidão voluntária, escrito por Étienne de La Boétie no século XVI. Palavras-chave: Etienne de La Boétie, servidão voluntária, natureza, liberdade, tirania.

Montaigne and La Boétie in the Chapter on Friendship

PMLA ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-530
Author(s):  
Harry Kurz
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Large Panels ◽  
Etienne De La Boetie

The problem we are proposing to discuss is the result of a peculiar carelessness of Montaigne in his chapter on Friendship in his Essais, Book I, 28. He begins by noting that a painter,1 commissioned by him to decorate some of the large panels of his study with pictures, daubs fanciful designs, “crotesques”, around the central pieces. So, remarks Montaigne, his thoughts here are mere figures without any other purpose than to enshrine a great piece composed by his friend, Etienne de la Boétie. This gem is a little essay called by its author Discours de la servitude volontaire, but soon renamed Le contr'un by those who read it. Montaigne then relates that it was written by La Boétie in his early youth (later specified as eighteen) and circulated among appreciative readers who relished its spirited defence of liberty against tyrants. Hence the name of Contr'un. Montaigne insists that it is beautifully composed and if its author had lived and undertaken a long work of reflection, he would have created something memorable that would have made him comparable to authors of antiquity. But this Discours and a Commentary on the Edict of January2 are all he has available now, since he has already published all the other MSS left him by his friend's bequest.3 Montaigne admits that he has a special fondness for the Contr'un because it furnished the means of their first awareness of each other even before they met, thus opening the door to the perfect friendship between them. This relationship was so extraordinary that its like will not be seen more than once in three centuries.

scholarly journals Insubmissão voluntária: Tirania, servidão e liberdade em La Boétie

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Marcio Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Etienne De La Boetie

Em tempos de escalada autoritária ao redor do globo, em que as estruturas autocráticas que nos circundam parecem, por vezes, demasiado colossais, pode ser proveitoso mobilizar autores capazes de oferecer não apenas modos enfrentamento à tirania, mas modos que estejam ao alcance do indivíduo. O “Discurso da servidão voluntária”, de Étienne de La Boétie, segundo penso, insere-se dentro dessa perspectiva. Dentre outras coisas, fornece ferramentas potentes para o enfretamento da tirania tendo como ponto de partida os tiranizados, os próprios indivíduos. Nesse sentido, através do exame das noções de tirania, servidão e liberdade, o presente artigo deseja explorar essa chave de leitura da obra de La Boétie.     

scholarly journals Jak możliwa (do pomyślenia) jest dobrowolna niewola? O nowożytnych formach rządzenia, ideologii i spektaklu władzy

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Mateusz Falkowski
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Etienne De La Boetie ◽  
The One ◽  
Voluntary Servitude

The article is devoted to the famous The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie. The author considers the theoretical premises underlying the concept of “voluntary servitude”, juxtaposing them with two modern concepts of will developed by Descartes and Pascal. An important feature of La Boétie’s project is the political and therefore intersubjective – as opposed to the individualistic perspective of Descartes and Pascal – starting point. It is therefore situated against the background of, on the one hand, the historical evolution of early modern states (from feudal monarchies, through so-called Renaissance monarchies up to European absolutisms) and, on the other hand – of the political philosophy of Machiavelli and Hobbes.

scholarly journals A subjetividade hoje: os paradoxos da servidão voluntária

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Doris Rinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Etienne De La Boetie

Valendo-se do conceito de "servidão voluntária", elaborado por Etienne De La Boétie no séc. XVI, o artigo pretende realizar uma reflexão sobre a subjetividade hoje. Este conceito - e os paradoxos que implica - revelou-se bastante profícuo e atual para pensar o movimento vivo de alienação e separação do sujeito, em particular na sociedade brasileira que acaba de completar quinhentos anos.

2. Montaigne’s life: a sketch

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
William M. Hamlin
Keyword(s):  
Early Retirement ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Etienne De La Boetie

“Montaigne’s life—a sketch” covers Montaigne’s culturally rich childhood and his profound friendship with the poet Étienne de La Boétie in early adulthood, which was curtailed by La Boétie’s early death. Montaigne took an active part in political life. His early “retirement” to the country, where he wrote the Essays, was not final. Having gained a reputation as a mediator between warring Catholic and Protestant factions, he retired again at fifty-two. Montaigne’s hopes that his writings might lead to another deep friendship were partly realized in his mentorship of Marie de Gournay, one of his first editors, who spent many years promoting his work after his death at fifty-nine.

The Radical Humanism of Etienne De La Boetie

1977 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nannerl O. Keohane
Keyword(s):  
Etienne De La Boetie ◽  
Radical Humanism

Montaigne on Love

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Guild
Keyword(s):  
Self And Other ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Etienne De La Boetie ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Montaigne is often celebrated as an analyst of embodied selves and their uncivilized and civilizing ways; this article focuses on the significance of emotion, specifically love, as much as embodiment, in the distinctive relationships in Montaigne’s writing between knowledge and understanding and between ethics and epistemology. He gives more weight to ancient sources, such as Plato and Aristotle, than to influential Renaissance discourses, such as Neoplatonism; but his understanding of the connections between loving, being loved, knowledge, self-knowledge, and living well seems to have been decisively shaped by his own experience of the love and loss of Étienne de la Boétie. His version of the ancient “paradoxical command” to know and love self puts the relationship between self and other at the heart of his inquiries, passions, and writing, and encompasses a paradoxically creative narcissism as the grounds for both curiosity about, and ethical recognition of, others.

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