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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1 January 1959
- Works
- 168
Top works
- Les dix commandements au XXIe siècle
- Une histoire de France
- Le crocodile d'Aristote
- Théologie de la provocation
- Manifeste pour la librairie... et les lecteurs!
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Film & TV
Acting · Argentan, France
Known for
- Élysée, la solitude du pouvoir — Self2017
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1959-01-01
Discography
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Michel Onfray is a French philosopher and writer born in 1959. His writings celebrate hedonism, reason and atheism. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Michel+Onfray">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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5 total works indexed
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 41,928x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 22,572x
- General atomic and molecular electronic structure system
· 1993 · cited 19,086x
- The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
· 2016 · cited 13,885x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 11,622x
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Quotes
- “Is not the cruel will of adults, by causing birth, condemning children to work, discipline, obedience, submission, frustration in a nursery, primary school, middle school, high school, university or army, and then in a factory, in a workshop, in a company or in an office? Should we call love transmitting this vileness to the body from our own body?”
- “Those childless by choice love children as much, if not more, than their fertile breeders. When asked why he does not have children, Thales replied, "because of my concern for children."”
- “Why make children? In the name of what? To achieve what? What legitimizes pulling a being out of nothingness, disturbing its peace, only so that it would have to take a short walk on this planet, leading back to the nothingness from which it was pulled out?”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1959-01-01 ) 1 January 1959 (age 67) , Argentan , France
- Alma mater
- University of Caen Lower Normandy
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Materialism , Hedonism , Epicureanism , Atheism , Consequentialism , Anarchism , Patriotism , Mutualism
- Main interests
- Atheism , religion, ethics, Cyrenaic school , hedonism , Epicureanism , pleasure , history of philosophy , materialism , aesthetics , bioethics
- Notable ideas
- The principle of Gulliver ( le principe de Gulliver )
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Described at
Onfray, Michel (1959-)
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- Official website
- frontpopulaire.fr
- Image
- Michel Onfray - Theatre rond point - 2010-05-20.jpg
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- Michel Onfray
- date of birth
- 1959-01-01
- name in native language
- Michel Onfray
- hashtag
- Onfray
- social media followers
- 72500
- described at URL
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Article
Michel Onfray ( French: [miʃɛl ɔ̃fʁɛ]; born 1 January 1959) 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 (translated into English as Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), 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 have stated that he has right-wing tendencies. He has become appreciated by some far-right circles, notably with his sovereignist magazine Front populaire.