The Staging of possessive individualism?

Une mise en scène de l’individualisme possessif ?

Pierre Crétois ()
Additional contact information
Pierre Crétois: UPN - Université Paris Nanterre

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: In Les Liaisons dangereuses, more precisely in a letter from the Marquise de Merteuil to the Vicomte de Valmont, Choderlos de Laclos sets the scene of an individualistic freedom shaped by self-appropriation. This freedom meets all the conditions of its failure, indeed it ends with its reification. This letter is also a critical representation of individual rationality and highlights certain features and limitations of modern individuality and of exchange relationships.

Keywords: Individualism; self-ownership; reification; private interest; Choderlos de Laclos; Individualisme; propriété de soi; intérêt privé (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique, 2016, Revue d'histoire de la pensée économique. 2016-2, n°2, pp.113-130. ⟨10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06350-6.p.0113⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01673081

DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06350-6.p.0113

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().