The virtues of abandon : an anti-individualist history of the French Enlightenment / Charly Coleman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xi, 402 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780804791212
- 080479121X
- Self (Philosophy) -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Individualism -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Philosophy, French -- 18th century
- Enlightenment -- France
- Moi (Philosophie) -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Philosophie française -- 18e siècle
- Siècle des Lumières -- France
- HISTORY -- Europe -- France
- Enlightenment
- Individualism
- Philosophy, French
- Self (Philosophy)
- France
- 1700-1799
- 944/.034 23
- B1925.S45 C65 2014eb
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Specters of venality -- The challenge of mysticism -- The curse of quietism -- Spinoza's ghost -- The sleep of reason -- The politics of alienation -- Revolutionary reveries.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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