Selected Essays: with La Boétie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Hackett Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (944 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008A07NJS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 426 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The inclusion of La Boétie's Discourse truly sets this new translation apart. If La Boétie's thesis does not resonate with today's undergraduates, then we should all truly begin to despair…. John’s University (adapted from Sixteenth Century Journal). Highly recommended." --Michael Wolfe, St
Fine Montaigne and La Boétie. David S. Excellent translation and notes!
This is now the default version of Montaigne in English." --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley. The translation by James B. No less impressive is the inclusion of an elegant English version of La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, which is both a key to understanding much of Montaigne and a major piece of early modern political thought. "This new edition of Montaigne's most important essays is a superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. Atkinson and David Sices is accurate, clear, readable, and conveys Montaigne's personable style elegantly to modern readers of English. The notes are authoritative and learned, but never intrusive, and the Introduction beautifully places Montaigne's work in context