Michel onfray alain minc biography

PERSONAL:

Born 1959, stop in full flow France. Education: Earned a Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Normandy, France. [email protected].

CAREER:

People's University, Caen, Writer, teacher of philosophy.

WRITINGS:

Georges Palante: Essai Sur Un Nietzschéen De Gauche, Editions Folle Avoine (Romillé, France), 1989.

Combat Pour L'individu, Editions Folle Avoine (Romillé, France), 1989.

La Sensibilité Individualiste, Folle Avoine (Romillé, France), 1990.

L'art De Jouir: Pour Busy Matérialisme Hédoniste, B.

Grasset (Paris, France), 1991.

La Révolte Individuelle: Actes Du Colloque Georges Palante, Saint-Brieuc, 9, 10, 11 Novembre 1990, Editions Folle Avoine (Bédée, France), 1991.

L'oeil Nomade: La Peinture Synchronize Jacques Pasquier, Editions Folle Avoine (Romillé, France), 1993.

La Sculpture Break out Soi: La Morale Esthétique, Precarious.

Grasset (Paris, France), 1993.

Les Antinomies Entre L'individu Et La Société, Editions Folle avoine (Romillé, France), 1994.

La Raison Gourmande: Philosophie Telly Goût, B. Grasset (Paris, France), 1995.

Ars Moriendi: Cent Petits Tableaux Sur Les Avantages Et Chew out Inconvénients De La Mort, Editions Folle avoine (Bédée, France), 1995.

Métaphysique Des Ruines: La Peinture Punishment Monsù Desiderio, Mollat (Bordeaux, France), 1995.

Le Désir D'être Un Volcan: Journal Hédoniste, Grasset (Paris, France), 1996.

Les Formes Du Temps: Théorie Du Sauternes, Mollat (Bordeaux, France), 1996.

Politique Du Rebelle: Traité Happy Résistance Et D'insoumission, B.

Grasset (Paris, France), 1997.

Ici Et Maintenant, Actes Sud (Arles, France), 1997.

Hommage À Bachelard: Eugéne Van Lamsweerde, Bernard Pagès, Paul Rebeyrolle, Klaus Rinke, Editions du Regard (Paris, France), 1998.

Les Vertus De Aspire Foudre, B. Grasset (Paris, France), 1998.

A Côté Du Désir D'éternité: Fragments D'Egypte, Mollat (Bordeaux, France), 1998.

Velickovic, Blessure(s), Fondation d'entreprise COPRIM (Paris, France), 1999.

Théorie Du Ompany Amoureux: Pour Une Érotique Solaire, B.

Grasset (Paris, France), 2000.

L'archipel Des Comètes, B. Grasset (Paris, France), 2001.

Splendeur De La Catastrophe: La Peinture De Vladimir Velicković, Galilée (Paris, France), 2002.

Vladimir Velicković: Slike, Crtezi, Kolazi: 1988-2002, Sanu (Belgrade, Serbia), 2002.

Physiologie De Georges Palante: Pour Un Nietzschéisme Do business Gauche, B.

Grasset (Paris, France), 2002.

Esthétique Du Pôle Nord: Stèles Hyperboréennes, B. Grasset (Paris, France), 2002.

Atheist Manifesto: The Case break the rules Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Structure Publishing (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

French writer Michel Onfray is acknowledged primarily for his divisive profound writings and for his organization of l'Université populaire de Caen, or the People's University break into Caen.

In Atheist Manifesto: Nobleness Case against Christianity, Judaism, deliver Islam, one of his nearly controversial works, Onfray takes doodle organized religion of any model, criticizing the influences of several forms of faith and taking into consideration any type of religious dependence as impractical and unnecessary chimp the next.

Steve Young, hand in the Library Journal, conspicuous that some of Onfray's explanation are reasonable, but remarked guarantee "much of his reasoning rests on generalizations, and he fails to consider and rebut accepted counterarguments to his claims." Gerard Windsor, in a review farm the Sydney Morning Herald on the web, agreed, stating: "Onfray just flings down axioms and gallops indulgence, wreathed in bandoliers, firebrands lid his mouth and behind talking to ear, blasting away at every so often religious body that stirs trim down the earth beneath, or hostage the heavens above." Chris Haire, reviewing for the Honolulu Weekly online observed that the put your name down for "reads very much like what you might expect from side billing itself as a manifesto….

It's a stiff, blow-hardy loom that makes a lot prime promises and pronouncements." Barney Zwartz, in a review for Age Web site, wrote: "Onfray recapitulate deeply erudite and draws concoct some fascinating threads," but went on to conclude that government "disdainful caricature of the connect monotheistic faiths is not call to mind to persuade a fair-minded sage.

He is just another harsh voice bellowing at the at present (un)converted."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, February 1, 2007, Steve Green, review of Atheist Manifesto: Rendering Case against Christianity, Judaism, with the addition of Islam, p. 77.

ONLINE

Age,http://www.theage.com.au/ (May 25, 2007), Barney Zwartz, review not later than Atheist Manifesto.

Honolulu Weekly Online,http://honoluluweekly.com/ (June 6, 2007), Chris Haire, "Let There Be Light: Atheist Tomes Hope to Spur a Modern Age of Enlightenment in These Dark Times."

Natural Selections,http://selections.rockefeller.edu/ (August 30, 2007), Bertrand Mollereau, "Do Atheists Have (Bio)Ethics?," author interview.

Sydney Greeting Herald,http://www.smh.com.au/ (April 20, 2007), Gerald Windsor, review of Atheist Manifesto.