Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

James B. Atkinson is an independent scholar. David Sices is Professor Emeritus of French and Italian, Dartmouth College.

An excellent translation: clear, crisp and accurate. The introduction is also a helpful contextualization of the text, Boétie's relation to Montaigne, and a brief discussion of the history of this important text on non-cooperation in the 20th-Century. I highly recommend it for courses in the history of political theory and of non-cooperation as a means of regime change. --James Tully, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria