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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Coleman, Charly (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Specters of venality
  • The challenge of mysticism
  • The curse of quietism
  • Spinoza's ghost
  • The sleep of reason
  • The politics of alienation
  • Revolutionary reveries.