{"product_id":"the-discourse-of-voluntary-servitude-9781967751112","title":"The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There are only four or five who maintain the dictator... not the six thousand but a hundred thousand, and even millions, cling to the tyrant by this cord to which they are tied.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTyranny is not imposed; it is invited. La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear--how millions bend the knee so a few can rise. A cold, lucid anatomy of submission, and a quiet, devastating call to end it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eÉtienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) was a French magistrate, political theorist, and close friend of Michel de Montaigne. Best known for The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, written when he was just eighteen, La Boétie posed a radical question that still echoes today: why do people submit to power that exploits them? Though he died young, his work quietly seeded the modern tradition of civil disobedience.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749332615442,"sku":"9781967751112","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_22703f49-667d-4c4e-9cd2-6f478c7e8a14.jpg?v=1764077373","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-discourse-of-voluntary-servitude-9781967751112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}