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

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coleman, Charly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
1700-1799
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
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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