| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 402 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Self (Philosophy) -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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Individualism -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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Individualism. |
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Self (Philosophy) |
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History. |
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France. |
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Philosophy, French -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, French. |
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Enlightenment -- France.
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Enlightenment. |
| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coleman, Charly. Virtues of abandon 9780804784436 (DLC) 2013047798 (OCoLC)865536966 |
| ISBN |
9780804791212 (electronic book) |
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080479121X (electronic book) |
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9780804784436 |
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0804784434 |
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