by Michel Onfray · Libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253099277
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«Féeries anatomiques» is the philosophical essay by Michel Onfray, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback, in French.
Onfray opposes conservative ethics committees to unchecked scientists and proposes a libertarian bioethics. He defends a post-Christian 'Faustian body', transformed by technology and guided by vitalism; from there he addresses transgenesis, cloning, euthanasia and graft surgery in a hedonistic key.
The work was originally published in 2003; this 2004 edition belongs to the Biblio essais collection, no. 4372.
Essay for philosophy readers interested in bioethics, technoscience and a controversial defense of hedonism.
Michel Onfray is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinkers as Nietzsche, Epicurus, the Cynic and Cyrenaic schools, as well as French materialism. He has gained notoriety for writing such works as Traité d'athéologie: Physique de la métaphysique, Politique du rebelle: traité de résistance et d'insoumission, Physiologie de Georges Palante, portrait d'un nietzchéen de gauche, La puissance d'exister and La sculpture de soi for which he won the annual Prix Médicis in 1993.
