by Michel Onfray · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246716914
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«La puissance d'exister» is Michel Onfray's hedonist manifesto, published by Grasset in 2006 (229 pages, in French).
Michel Onfray synthesises his hedonist philosophy across six domains: historiography, ethics, aesthetics, bioethics, erotics and politics. The book opens with an extensive autobiographical passage about his time at a boarding school run by Salesian priests, an experience the author considers foundational to his rejection of Platonism and Christianity.
The original subtitle is «manifeste hédoniste»; the thematic register places the work in the Philosophy category, and the edition is described as paperback.
For readers of contemporary French philosophy and Michel Onfray's 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.
