by Michel Onfray · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072821127
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«La stricte observance» is Michel Onfray's biographical essay on Rancé and the Trappist reform, published by Gallimard in paperback and in French.
It starts from the mourning of the abbot of Rancé for the Duchess of Montbazon, his lover, to recount his break with hedonism, his renunciation of his possessions and the refounding of the Trappists under a very harsh rule. From the abbey of La Trappe, Onfray reflects on death and God and contrasts his own atheism and his bereavements with Rancé's radical faith.
The full title is «La stricte observance: avec Rancé à la Trappe»; it was published on October 11, 2018, in Gallimard's Blanche collection.
For those interested in French philosophy, the history of monasticism and reflections on death and faith.
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.
