by Michel Onfray · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246453017
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«L'art de jouir: pour un matérialisme hédoniste» is the philosophical essay by Michel Onfray, published by Grasset in paperback (315 pages, in French).
Onfray analyzes philosophy's distrust of the body: the nose and the phallus as signs of an unworthy animality. He reviews the reactions of Socrates, Kant, Sartre or Kierkegaard and sets against them a hedonist genealogy —from the Cyrenaics to Sade, from Epicurus to Fourier— that vindicates pleasure.
Work originally published in 1991; part of Grasset's Figures collection.
Suitable for readers interested in contemporary philosophy, history of ideas and hedonist thought.
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.
