Dr. Susan Carpenter Binkley is Assistant Professor of French at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She received her Ph.D. in French from The Ohio State University.
2007 0-7734-5275-3 This interdisciplinary study explores the concept of the individual human being as it evolved within the philosophies of the French Enlightenment and how notions of the individual reached a turning point during the French Revolution. The author draws on the thought of French philosophes and revolutionaries concerning the individual within nature and society and examines them within the framework of Michel Foucault’s thought.