by Michel Onfray · ROBERT LAFFONT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221250303
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«La vengeance du pangolin: Penser le virus» is the philosophical essay by Michel Onfray, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (304 pages, in French).
Michel Onfray reads the covid-19 pandemic as a mirror of the contradictions of our age: failures of political management, the drift of some intellectuals, scientific cacophony and denial of death. In response, he proposes a vitalist philosophy: life only acquires meaning if one recognises that death makes it possible.
The work was published on 3 September 2020 and falls within the category of philosophy.
Aimed at a general audience, especially readers interested in contemporary philosophy and critical analysis of the pandemic.
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.
