A hedonist manifesto : the power to exist 978-0-231-53836-7, 0231538367, 978-0-231-17126-7

Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our mela

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A hedonist manifesto : the power to exist
 978-0-231-53836-7, 0231538367, 978-0-231-17126-7

Table of contents :
Content: 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.

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