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Volunteers outside the USA: Harry Kurz died in 1973. The author's work is still protected by copyright in places like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1955) or Canada (author's death plus 50 years), UNLESS the rule of shorter term applies. <p>
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Friendship." Here, however, he tackles a different, more impersonal relationship: that of ruler and ruled. The argument in this work is encapsulated in this quote: "A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when, having a choice between being vassals and being free men, it deserts its liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery, or, rather, apparently welcomes it." Montaigne claimed that Boétie composed this work at the age of 18, and it was published over a decade after the young man's tragic death at 32. Some commentators up to the present day have argued that Montaigne himself was the author, and that he used the cover of his late friend's name because of its radical content. Whatever the truth, these words have inspired anti-authoritarian thinking for centuries. (Ben Adams)
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[*] Project Code: iYeiaPFz
[*]Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Étienne de La Boétie) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne_de_La_Boétie
[*]Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_on_Voluntary_Servitude
[*]Number of sections (files) this project will have: 3
[*]Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Yes
[*]Original publication date (if known): 1576
[*]If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Essays & Short Works; *Non-fiction/Political Science; *Non-fiction/Philosophy/Early Modern
Keywords that describe the book: anarchism, montaigne
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- "Section [number] of Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
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"Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire, by Étienne de La Boétie. Translated by Harry Kurz (1889 - 1973) [Section]"
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