by Michel Onfray · Editions Autrement · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782746733206
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«Rendre la raison populaire» is the philosophical essay by Michel Onfray, published by Editions Autrement in paperback (94 pages, in French).
Michel Onfray explains, defends and champions the Popular University of Caen, created in 2002 in response to the rise of the far right in France. He recovers the Enlightenment ideal of Condorcet and the work of Georges Deherme to bring knowledge closer to the working class, and advocates a dialogic, critical philosophy removed from academic dogmatism.
It belongs to the collection «Universités populaires & Cie» and is subtitled «Université populaire, mode d'emploi». It was published in 2012.
For readers interested in philosophy, in the figure of Michel Onfray and in popular education as a tool for emancipation.
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.
