The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist by Charly Coleman PAPERBACK

The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment\nby Charly Coleman\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Charly Coleman\nTitle: The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: European history\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781503604193\nISBN-10: 1503604195\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nFrance 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\u2014of property, of position, even of personhood. Those who championed man's posses.