by Michel Onfray · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253084549
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«L'Eudémonisme social» is a philosophical essay by Michel Onfray, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (352 pages, in French).
In this essay, Onfray addresses the nineteenth century and champions the utopian dimension of the liberal hedonisms of the industrial era. He traces the eudaimonist potential in authors such as Bentham, Godwin, Flora Tristan, Stuart Mill, Fourier, Owen and Bakunin, seen as an unexplored and promising left.
Fifth volume of the series «Contre-histoire de la philosophie», in the «biblio essais» collection.
For philosophy readers interested in the nineteenth century and in the critical revision of the history of thought proposed by Michel Onfray.
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.
