Description: Lyrical Individualism presents a selection of André Colomer's crucial writings, with a focus on anarchist theory and the philosophy of Henri Bergson.
Review Quotes: Lyrical Individualism will immerse the reader in the swirling intellectual currents of early twentieth-century France. For Colomer, anarchism was far more than a political ideology; it was a path to personal liberation. Inspired by Bergson and Nietzsche, Colomer reached for the "amorous imaginations of living." Mark Antliff's foreword reminds us that the philosophy of Henri Bergson influenced anarchists along with many others; Oskar De Wolf's introduction explicates two decades of Colomer's thought. These poetic and polemical essays trace Colomer's intellectual trajectory from his prewar aesthetic individualism to a postwar syndicalist phase, before he abandoned anarchism in his final years and embraced communist revolution.--Richard D. Sonn, author of Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France