The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment

By Charly Coleman

Book Overview

The Virtues of Abandon explores how eighteenth-century debates over the self's relationship to property gave rise to a previously unexamined anti-individualist tradition of thought and action that informed the work of mystics, materialists, and radical political thinkers during the French Enlightenment and the Revolution.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503604195
• ISBN13: 9781503604193
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"