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Freedom Over ServitudeMontaigne, La Boetie, and On Voluntary Servitude\nAuthor(s): David Lewis Schaefer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Praeger Publishers Inc\nISBN-13: 9780313305276, 978-0313305276\nSynopsis\nThis volume contains five articles by prominent scholars of French literature and political philosophy that examine the relation between Montaigne's Essays, one of the classic works of the French philosophical and literary traditions, and the writings attributed by Montaigne to his friend, the French humanist Etienne de La Botie's.\n\nThree contributors to the volume suggest that Montaigne was the real author of the revolutionary tract On Voluntary Servitude, along with the other works he attributed to La Botie's. Two contributors describe the remarkable mathematical and/or mythological patterns found in both the Essays and the works ascribed to La Botie's. Several essays articulate the revolutionary political teaching found in t.