| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Series |
Insurrections: critical studies in religion, politics, and culture |
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Insurrections.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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, ethical, and embodied life. He then lays the groundwork for both a radical and constructive politics of the body that adds to debates over morality, equality, sexual relations, and social engagement, demonstrating how philosophy, and not just modern scientism, can contribute to a humanistic ethics. Onfray |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 20, 2015) |
| Subject |
Hedonism.
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Ontology.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 21st century.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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ontology (metaphysics)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Hedonism
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Ontology
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Philosophy, Modern
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Ethics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McClellan, Joseph, translator, writer of introduction
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| ISBN |
9780231538367 |
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0231538367 |
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