Marc D. Schachter

Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship

From Classical Antiquity to Early Modern France

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing primarily on three early modern French authors, this book explores the erotics and politics of "voluntary servitude" in classical antiquity and the early modern period through Michel Foucault's late work on governmentality and the care of the self. Marc Schachter explores how these authors-ÿtienne de La Boétie, Michel de Montaigne, and Marie de Gournay-pursue related inquiries into voluntary servitude and self-control in marriage, friendship, pederasty, and politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781138274396
• ISBN-10: 1138274399
• Artikelnr.: 57041169

Autorenporträt

Dr Marc D. Schachter, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Italy

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: voluntary servitude, governmentality and the care of the self
Voluntary servitude and the politics of pederasty in Plato's Symposium
Critique and governmentality in La Boétie's Mesnagerie de Xenophon,and Servitude Volontaire
Montaigne's 'voluntary liberty' and the politics of friendship
Friendly usurpations: Gournay and Montaigne
The erotics of friendship and the politics of love
A conclusion in 3 parts: the art of voluntary inservitude
Bibliography
Index.