Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship
Title | Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship PDF eBook |
Author | Marc D. Schachter |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351874187 |
Focusing primarily on three early modern French authors, this book explores the erotics and politics of "voluntary servitude" in classical antiquity and the early modern period. These authors-Étienne de La Boétie, Michel de Montaigne, and Marie de Gournay-pursue related inquiries into voluntary servitude and self-control in marriage, friendship, pederasty and politics. Marc Schachter shows how Montaigne's intimate textual relationship with La Boétie provides him the opportunity to honor his beloved friend while transforming many of his ideas. Similarly, Marie de Gournay's editorial voluntary servitude to Montaigne provides her the occasion to authorize her own practice as a woman author and to engage critically with Montaigne's ideas even as she celebrates her friendship with him. Schachter's analyses are pursued particularly through the lens of Michel Foucualt's concept of governmentality which, like voluntary servitude, operates on three interrelated scales: self-control, control in interpersonal relationships, and political control. Schachter argues that thinking about the function of voluntary servitude through the lens of governmentality leads to a more nuanced understanding both of Foucault's late work and of the transformational possibilities offered by friendship and voluntary servitude in early modern France.
'Voluntary Servitude' and the Politics of Friendship
Title | 'Voluntary Servitude' and the Politics of Friendship PDF eBook |
Author | Marc David Schachter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Friendship |
ISBN |
On Voluntary Servitude
Title | On Voluntary Servitude PDF eBook |
Author | Marc David Schachter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Friendship in literature |
ISBN |
Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, The
Title | Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, The PDF eBook |
Author | Estienne de La Boétie |
Publisher | Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Allegiance |
ISBN | 1610163656 |
The Politics of Obedience
Title | The Politics of Obedience PDF eBook |
Author | Estienne de La Boétie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America
Title | Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Morgan |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2001-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780814756706 |
Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labor systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout, overriding themes emerge: the labor market in North America for indentured servants, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labor, and resistance to bondage.
The Politics of Obedience and Étienne de La Boétie
Title | The Politics of Obedience and Étienne de La Boétie PDF eBook |
Author | Estienne de La Boétie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
"I do not ask that you place hands on the tyrant, but merely cease to obey him."