Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship

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  • Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship Book Detail

  • Author : Marc D. Schachter
  • Release Date : 2016-12-05
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 389
  • ISBN 13 : 1351874187
  • File Size : 66,66 MB
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Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship by Marc D. Schachter PDF Summary

Book Description: 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. These authors-Étienne 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. Marc Schachter shows how Montaigne's intimate textual relationship with La Boétie provides him the opportunity to honor his beloved friend while transforming many of his ideas. Similarly, Marie de Gournay's editorial voluntary servitude to Montaigne provides her the occasion to authorize her own practice as a woman author and to engage critically with Montaigne's ideas even as she celebrates her friendship with him. Schachter's analyses are pursued particularly through the lens of Michel Foucualt's concept of governmentality which, like voluntary servitude, operates on three interrelated scales: self-control, control in interpersonal relationships, and political control. Schachter argues that thinking about the function of voluntary servitude through the lens of governmentality leads to a more nuanced understanding both of Foucault's late work and of the transformational possibilities offered by friendship and voluntary servitude in early modern France.

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