by Michel Onfray · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221219546
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«Le deuil de la mélancolie» is the intimate account by philosopher Michel Onfray, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (124 pages, in French).
Michel Onfray recounts his grief after the death of his partner and his own experience of a heart attack and two strokes. His ailing body becomes the stage for that grief; against the idea of «getting over» the loss, he maintains that grief transforms us. A vitalist text that affirms life from fragility.
The subtitle «Récit intime» frames the work as a personal account by the author. Publication date: September 6, 2018.
For readers of philosophy and memoirs seeking an intimate reflection on illness, mortality, and grief.
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.
