by Michel Onfray · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221241752
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«Théorie de la dictature» is the political essay by Michel Onfray, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (229 pages, in French).
Michel Onfray analyses dictatorships through Orwell's dystopias (1984, Animal Farm) and lists seven keys to establishing a modern dictatorship: suppressing freedom, impoverishing language, abolishing truth, erasing history, denying nature, fostering hatred and aspiring to empire. A reflection on the political present.
The work opens with the essay 'Orwell et l'Empire maastrichien'. Published on 9 May 2019.
Essay on political philosophy, aimed at readers of geopolitics and critical thought, and at followers 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.
