About the Author

Charly Coleman is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.

Reviews

"Charly Coleman's The Virtues of Abandon will transform the way we think about the Enlightenment and its relationship to the Revolution. Ranging across a very wide range of intellectual fields and forms of social practice, Coleman uncovers a religious, mystical strain of thinking which runs in fruitful counterpoint with the more familiar, secularising Enlightenment narratives." - Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London (Any changes to text must be cleared with Colin Jones) "An excellent work of remarkable originality." - Helena Rosenblatt, The Graduate Center, CUNY