Rousseau and the voluntary servitude?

Among the variety of readers of Etienne de La Poetic through history, many were in Geneva, where the text was published very early on. The great author from Geneva, lean JacquesRousseau, may have known this text since his early years. The article analyzes the influence that La Boetie may have had on the first text of Rousseau, Le Dfccours sir les Sciences el les Arts, drawing on previous analyses by Miguel Abeusour. This reading of Rousseau with La Boetie in mind also builds on the famous article Leo Strauss dedicated to the first Dzscours of Rousseau, but reaches 'fundamentally opposite conclusions. This article, closer to the understanding that Ernst Cassirer had of Rousseau, attempts to explore this potential relationship between Rousseau and La Boetie and to understand where this can lead us in our view of a different Rousseau.