by Michel Onfray · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253943235
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«L'Invention du plaisir: Fragments cyrénaïques» is the philosophical essay by Michel Onfray, published by LGF in paperback (284 pages, in French).
Study and anthology with which Michel Onfray recovers Cyrenaic hedonism, a Greek school around Aristippus of Cyrene. It brings together the surviving fragments of these philosophers in their first French edition, with new translations, and contextualises them in a lengthy preface. It addresses their ideas on pleasure, money, love and power.
This work belongs to the biblio essais collection of Le Livre de Poche (no. 4323). It is an edition published in 2002, with 284 pages in French.
For those interested in philosophy, Greek thought and hedonism, and for those who follow the work of 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.
