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A hedonist manifesto : the power to exist /

Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, et...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Onfray, Michel, 1959- (Author)
Other Authors: McClellan, Joseph (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Insurrections.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. An alternative method. A philosophical side path
  • Bodily reason
  • A philosophical life
  • Part 2. An elective ethics. An atheological morality
  • A rule of immanent play
  • A hedonist intersubjectivity
  • Part 3. Solar erotics. The ascetic ideal
  • Libertarian libido
  • Carnal hospitality
  • A cynical aesthetic
  • An archipelagic logic
  • A psychopathology of art
  • A playful art
  • Part 5. A promethean bioethics. De-Chiristianized flesh
  • An art of artifice
  • The Faustian body
  • Libertarian politics
  • Mapping poverty
  • Hedonist politics
  • A practice of resistance.