In the vast landscape of philosophical thought, the traditional narrative often follows a well-trodden path: from Plato to Aristotle, through Descartes, Kant, and culminating in Hegel or Nietzsche. But French philosopher Michel Onfray dared to blow this canon apart. His monumental project, La Contre-Histoire de la Philosophie (The Counter-History of Philosophy), is a multi-volume and multi-lecture series that seeks to restore the voices of heretics, materialists, sensualists, and forgotten freethinkers.
Onfray’s Contre-histoire flips the script. He excavates the philosophers who were marginalized, ignored, or actively suppressed by the academic and religious establishments. His mission is to construct a "hedonistic" genealogy of thought that celebrates the material world, the body, pleasure, and radical liberty. In the vast landscape of philosophical thought, the
Contre-histoire de la philosophie N° 16: Freud (2) - Amazon Onfray’s Contre-histoire flips the script
Use his arguments to spark debates on modern secularism. Contre-histoire de la philosophie N° 16: Freud (2)