by Michel Onfray · AUTREMENT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782746739550
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«La passion de la méchanceté» is Michel Onfray's philosophical essay on the Marquis de Sade, published by Autrement in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Michel Onfray examines why the Marquis de Sade, accused of kidnappings, rapes, threats and torture, was praised by the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century. Drawing on his life, work and correspondence, Onfray dismantles that legend and presents him as a last misogynistic and violent feudal lord, not a liberator.
Published on 27 August 2014 in the collection «Une contre-histoire de la littérature», directed by Michel Onfray and launched in March 2014 with a volume on Don Quixote.
For readers interested in philosophy, literary criticism and the figure of the Marquis de Sade.
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.
