TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coleman,Charly
TI  - The virtues of abandon: an anti-individualist history of the French Enlightenment 
SN  - 9780804791212
AV  - B1925.S45 C65 2014eb
U1  - 944/.034 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Moi (Philosophie)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Philosophie française
KW  - Siècle des Lumières
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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