Politics of Obedience (La Boetie)

Author: Etienne de La Boetie

File under: La Boetie

ISBN: 9781610161237

Binding: paperback

Section: Political-Science

States are more vulnerable than people think. They can collapse in an instant—when consent is withdrawn. That is the thesis of The Politics of Obedience, one of the greatest and most thrilling political essays in the history of ideas. Written nearly a half-millennium ago, Étienne de La Boétie's tract will shake the way you think of the state. His thesis and argument are an answer to Machiavelli, as well as one of the seminal essays in defense of liberty.