by Michel Onfray · Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253941989
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«L'art de jouir» is Michel Onfray's philosophical essay, published by Livre de Poche in paperback (279 pages, in French).
Essay denouncing the traditional philosophical distrust of the body and proposing to rehabilitate a hedonistic line in the history of thought. Onfray ranges from the Cyrenaics to May '68, via Sade, Fourier or La Mettrie, and defends a philosophy that integrates pleasure and corporeality against the Western ascetic tradition.
This edition belongs to the biblio essais collection of Le Livre de Poche (no. 4198) and was published in 1994.
For philosophy readers interested in hedonism, the vindication of the body and the critique of ascetic morality.
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.
