The virtues of abandon : an anti-individualist history of the French Enlightenment /
Coleman, Charly,
The virtues of abandon : an anti-individualist history of the French Enlightenment / Charly Coleman. - 1 online resource (xi, 402 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specters of venality -- The challenge of mysticism -- The curse of quietism -- Spinoza's ghost -- The sleep of reason -- The politics of alienation -- Revolutionary reveries.
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. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the successive assaults of radical Christian mystics, philosophical materialists, and political revolutionaries. This book traces the aims and activities of these three seemingly disparate groups, and the current.
9780804791212 (electronic bk.) 080479121X (electronic bk.)
1700-1799
Self (Philosophy)--History--France--18th century.
Individualism--History--France--18th century.
Philosophy, French--18th century.
Enlightenment--France.
Moi (Philosophie)--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
Philosophie française--18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières--France.
HISTORY--Europe--France.
Enlightenment.
Individualism.
Philosophy, French.
Self (Philosophy)
France.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
B1925.S45 / C65 2014eb
944/.034
The virtues of abandon : an anti-individualist history of the French Enlightenment / Charly Coleman. - 1 online resource (xi, 402 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Specters of venality -- The challenge of mysticism -- The curse of quietism -- Spinoza's ghost -- The sleep of reason -- The politics of alienation -- Revolutionary reveries.
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. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the successive assaults of radical Christian mystics, philosophical materialists, and political revolutionaries. This book traces the aims and activities of these three seemingly disparate groups, and the current.
9780804791212 (electronic bk.) 080479121X (electronic bk.)
1700-1799
Self (Philosophy)--History--France--18th century.
Individualism--History--France--18th century.
Philosophy, French--18th century.
Enlightenment--France.
Moi (Philosophie)--Histoire--France--18e siècle.
Philosophie française--18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières--France.
HISTORY--Europe--France.
Enlightenment.
Individualism.
Philosophy, French.
Self (Philosophy)
France.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
B1925.S45 / C65 2014eb
944/.034