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Étienne de La Boétie
AuthorBooks · Second hand1530-1563
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his relationship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
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About Étienne de La Boétie
Birth
1530
Death
1563
First book
1576
Years writing
450
Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his relationship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. His early political treatise Discourse on Voluntary Servitude was posthumously adopted by the Huguenot movement and is sometimes seen as an early influence on modern anti-statist, utopian and civil disobedience thought.
Étienne de La Boétie was a prominent French philosopher and judge of the 16th century.
His most famous work, the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, is a cornerstone of political philosophy.
Born in Sarlat-la-Canéda, he pursued a prolific career as a writer, poet, and moralist.
His thought deeply explores the concepts of liberty and the nature of political power.
Despite his short life, he left an intellectual legacy of thirteen works that are still studied today.
