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BL
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849021
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Mouvement du Libre-Esprit.English
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| Main Entry
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Vaneigem, Raoul,1934-
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| Title & Author
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The Movement of the Free Spirit : : general considerations and firsthand testimony concerning some brief flowerings of life in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and, incidentally, our own time /\ Raoul Vaneigem ; translated by Randall Cherry and Ian Patterson.
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| Edition Statement
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1st pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Zone Books ;Cambridge, Mass. :: Distributed by the MIT Press,, 1998.
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302 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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094229971X
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: 9780942299717
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| Notes
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Originally published: 1994.
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Translation of: Mouvement du Libre-Esprit.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-295) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: The Perspective of the Market and the Perspective of Life -- I. From the Twilight of the Bureaucrats to the Dawn of Divine Economics -- II. The Church Struggles to Evolve -- III. The Principal Manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century -- IV. Outline for an Alchemy of the Self.
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| Abstract
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This book by the legendary Situationist activist and author of The Revolution of Everyday Life examines the heretical and millenarian movements that challenged social and ecclesiastical authority in Europe from the 1200s into the 1500s. Although Vaneigem discusses a number of different movements such as the Cathars and Joachimite millenarians, his main emphasis is on the various manifestations of the Movement of the Free Spirit in northern Europe. He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange. Vaneigem is particularly interested in the radical opposition presented by these movements to the imperatives of an emerging market-based economy, and he evokes crucial historical parallels with the antisystemic rebellions of the 1960s. The book includes translations of original texts and source materials.--Publisher.
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Brethren of the Free Spirit.
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Christian heresies-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Sects, Medieval.
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Brethren of the Free Spirit.
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Christian heresies-- Middle Ages.
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Sects, Medieval.
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| Dewey Classification
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273/.6
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| LC Classification
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BT1358.V3613 1993
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