Michel Onfray

Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, ethical, and embodied life. He then lays the groundwork for both a radical and constructive politics of the body that adds to debates over morality, equality, sexual relations, and social engagement, demonstrating how philosophy, and not just modern scientism, can contribute to a humanistic ethics. Onfray attacks Platonic idealism and its manifestation in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic belief. He warns of the lure of attachment to the purportedly eternal, immutable truths of idealism, which detracts from the immediacy of the world and our bodily existence. Insisting that philosophy is a practice that operates in the real, material world, Onfray enlists Epicurus and Democritus to undermine idealist and theological metaphysics; Nietzsche, Bentham, and Mill to dismantle idealist ethics; and Palante and Bourdieu to collapse crypto-fascist neoliberalism. In their place, he constructs a positive, hedonistic ethics that enlarges on the work of the New Atheists to promote a joyful approach to our lives in this, our only, world.

Seventeen-year-old Aura must decide between two loves--ghostly Logan and very alive Zachary, her Scottish research partner--as she tries to unlock the mysteries of the Shift and of her past.

"[O]ffers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers if we look at their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher's banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee. Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have been such a proponent of frugality if his daily menu had included something more than dairy products? Nietzsche was grumpy about bad cooks and the retardation of human evolution, and Sartre was repelled by shellfish because they are 'food buried in an object, and you have to pry them out'"--Back cover.

This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science, including Democritus, Hypatia, Kepler, Newton, Huygens, Champollion, Lowell and Humason. The book also explores spacecraft missions of discovery of the nearby planets, the research in the Library of ancient Alexandria, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, the origin of life, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies and the origins of matter, suns and worlds. The author retraces the fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into life and consciousness, enabling the cosmos to wonder about itself. He considers the latest findings on life elsewhere and how we might communicate with the beings of other worlds. ~ WorldCat.org

Pierre Haubtmann a découvert Proudhon en 1942. Son premier projet était de présenter une synthèse philosophique de la pensée proudhonienne. Mais très vite, il a estimé nécessaire de connaitre en profondeur l’homme lui-même ; il l’a suivi pas a pas durant sa vie, étudiant ses réactions devant les événements, les courants d’idées, l’Église, dans ses relations avec les hommes et quels hommes, pour ne citer que Marx, Grün, Bakounine, Ewerbeck… Grâce à l’amitié qui l’a lié aux descendants de Proudhon, il eut acces a tous les manuscrits inédits de Proudhon. C’est donc une masse considérable de documents qu’il étudia, avec une rigueur toute scientifique. L’épaisseur de cet ouvrage, la multitude de dossiers, de fiches, de carnets trouvés a la mort de P. Haubtmann, et maintenant détenus dans les archives de l’Institut Catholique de Paris, sont le témoin de ce persévérant et minutieux labeur, ou l’auteur — cet intellectuel, ce prêtre si proche du monde des travailleurs — a su mettre en relief : la socialisation de la production, la formation permanente, le culte des valeurs morales, les intuitions sociologiques, l’antithéisme, autant de thèmes qui font de cet ouvrage, achevé en 1961 et dont la mort de l’auteur retarda la publication, une œuvre d’actualité, un travail dont ne peuvent se passer tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la pensée proudhonienne, à l’origine et au destin du socialisme.

A. Jollien est handicapé suite à un accident à la naissance. Passionné de philosophie il livre ses réflexions sur l'art d'être homme, le rapport au corps, la souffrance et les relations entre les hommes, sans ressentiment ni colère, d'une manière heureuse.

Politique du rebelle : Traité de résistance et d'insoumission, est un essai de Michel Onfray publié en 1997 chez Grasset et en 1999 en livre de poche. ([Wikipedia](

Le Crépuscule d'une idole, sous-titré L’Affabulation freudienne, est un essai de Michel Onfray sur Sigmund Freud dans les domaines de la psychanalyse et de l’épistémologie de la psychologie publié le 21 avril 2010 aux éditions Grasset.

Sequel to Pleasure. Nia Simone Bijou embarks on a quest to enhance her artistic gifts through heightened sensory experience, Hollywood-style. Four years have passed since the events of Pleasure, and Nia's success as a writer has grown, bringing her from Atlanta to Los Angeles. Drawn to an exclusive pleasure palace, where patrons try on roles as they actively shun their respective realities, Nia's ability to balance truth and fantasy becomes increasingly blurred. Will her relationship with the mysterious, often unavailable Prada survive the countless temptations? Will her successful literary career be given over to impulse indulgence? Does decadence know any bounds? When Nia's past comes back to mingle with her present, and when her staid public persona clashes with her fantasy life of decadence, readers will be stunned by the outcome.