by Michel Onfray · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782746743427
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«La force du sexe faible» is the historical essay by Michel Onfray, published by Éditions Autrement in paperback (212 pages, in French).
Onfray reinterprets the French Revolution from the role of women, against the official Jacobin and male version. The author champions Olympe de Gouges, Charlotte Corday and Madame de Staël as revolutionaries, republicans and Girondins, and shows the strength of the so-called weaker sex against violence.
The full subtitle is «Contre-histoire de la Révolution française»; the book belongs to the collection «Universités populaires & C°» and was published in 2016.
For those interested in the French Revolution, the role of women in history and Michel Onfray's essayistic work.
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.
