Théorie de la dictature | Michel Onfray

EAN : 9782221241752

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Pages : 234

Size : 135 x 215 mm

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The Time of the North Star

Michel Onfray

Release date : 09/05/2019

Following the principle of his hedonist journal, this volume brings together fifteen texts conceived as instantaneous musings on current events and debates, readings and shows, friendships and even more intimate reflections on the author’s work and his personal life.

The first text in this collection, “Thinking Like a Horse,” is an homage to Bartabas, the famous French horse trainer and performer, in whom Onfray finds the wisdom from ancient times linked to pantheism and man’s communion with animals. This essential link that unites nature is also brought to light... The first text in this collection, “Thinking Like a Horse,” is an homage to Bartabas, the famous French horse trainer and performer, in whom Onfray finds the wisdom from ancient times linked to pantheism and man’s communion with animals. This essential link that unites nature is also brought to light in two other majestic philosophical texts on light and birds.

Michel Onfray’s political thought, inseparable from his philosophical reflections, comes out in force in a tribute to Proudhon and his “positive anarchy,” which Onfray sees as the model of a revolution that takes place without the need for plundering or massacres. He develops this same idea in a splendid text on Camus, “Celebration of Algeria,” in which he recalls the author of The Stranger and his aspiration for an open-minded political revolution. Onfray sets Camus’s party up against Sartre and the “Sartrian legend,” inscribing the “master of wisdom” in the line of those who “think to live”—Montaigne, Pascal, Diderot, Nietzsche—and not only as philosophers. Michel Onfray recognizes himself as part of this family, faithful to the teaching of his “old master,” Lucien Jerphagnon, whose memory he salutes in another moving text.

Onfray also opposes “the contemporary nihilism that consists of approaching most problems from the worst angle,” with the philosophers of the Enlightenment, who for him offer the best guarantee of intellectual independence and vitality. He offers a stunning example of such thinking as he meditates on music, painting, and photography as well as thinkers like de Sade, Freud, or Nietzsche and his followers.

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EAN : 9782221241752

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Pages : 234

Size : 135 x 215 mm

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