Onfray

Summary

Dominique Pagani mostly cites Michel Onfray as a counter-example. He calls him the "seaside philosopher" of hedonism, heard in the summer on France Culture12. He places him among the post-Nietzscheans and the heirs of the Nietzschean vulgate, says he makes a "villainous" use of Nietzsche, and sets his Nietzsche against the Nietzsche of the documents3. He criticises him for an anti-philosophy that ignores the philosophers, sets aside Hegel and Plato, and warms over La Mettrie4. He notes that this hedonism remains gloomy and accusatory. He also counts him among the naive neo-Spinozists and among those who teach that we are all determined. He often comes back to his case against Freud, presented as a charlatan, which he considers a caricature56. On the political level, he finds his positions acceptable but grounded in a liberal-libertarian philosophy. He criticises him for turning Clouscard into a mere critic of consumption7 and points out his confusionism about the communists.

1. 1Hegel on the Beach 1/51 Feb 2016 · 2:21:20
2. 2Money, work, freedom3 Aug 2019 · 6:53
3. 3“I is another”, or contradictory identity12 Dec 2023 · 1:40:35
4. 4#1 Schubert and the master singers3 Dec 2020 · 42:59
5. 5#6.1 Prelude: Lacan, “Function and field of speech and language”10 Nov 2019 · 49:07
6. 6Our former savagery? An Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud13 Jun 2025 · 30:39
7. 7At the bistro (part 1)18 Jun 2016 · 25:01

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