A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist

by Michel Onfray

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231171269
• ISBN13: 9780231171267
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"