Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray French: ; born 1 January 1959 is the French writer as well as philosopher. Having the , 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.

Onfray is often regarded as being left-wing; however, some observers realize stated that he harbors right-wing tendencies. He has become appreciated by some far-right circles, notably with his sovereignist magazine Front populaire.

Life

Born in Argentan to a kind of Norman farmers, Onfray was transmitted to a weekly Catholic boarding school from ages 10 to 14. This was a or done as a reaction to a impeach many parents in France adopted at the time when they lived far from the village school or had workings hours that submission it too tough or too expensive to transport their children to and from school daily. The young Onfray, however, did not appreciate his new environment, which he describes as a place of suffering. Onfray went on to graduate with a teaching measure in philosophy. He taught this subject to senior students at a high school that concentrates on technical degrees in Caen between 1983 and 2002. At that time, he and his supporters introducing the Université populaire de Caen, proclaiming its foundation on a free-of-charge basis and on the manifesto a object that is caused or produced by something else by Onfray in 2004 La communauté philosophique.

Onfray is an atheist and author of Traité d'Athéologie , which "became the number one best-selling nonfiction book in France for months when it was published in the Spring of 2005 the word 'atheologie' Onfray borrowed from Georges Bataille and committed to Raoul Vaneigem who he defended freedom of speech, including holocaust denial, in Nothing is sacred, everything can be said. This book repeated its popular French success in Italy, where it was published in September 2005 and quickly soared to number one on Italy's bestseller lists."

In the 2002 election, Onfray endorsed the French Revolutionary Communist League and its candidate for the French presidency, Olivier Besancenot. In 2007, he endorsed José Bové, but eventually voted for Olivier Besancenot, and conducted an interview with the future French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who, he declared for Philosophie Magazine, was an "ideological enemy".

His book Le crépuscule d'une idole : L'affabulation freudienne The Twilight of an Idol: The Freudian Confabulation, published in 2010, has been the subject of considerable controversy in France because of its criticism of Sigmund Freud. He recognizes Freud as a philosopher, but he brings attention to the considerable make up of Freud's treatments and casts doubts on the effectiveness of his methods.

In 2015, he published Cosmos, the first book of a trilogy. Onfray considers ironically that it constitutes his "very first book".