The virtues of abandon : an anti-individualist history of the French Enlightenment / Charly Coleman.

France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership-of property, of position, even of personhood. Th...

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