André Comte-Sponville

André Comte-Sponville
Born (1952-03-12) 12 March 1952 (age 72)[1]
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole normale supérieure
Pantheon-Sorbonne University (PhD)
OccupationPhilosopher

André Comte-Sponville (born 12 March 1952) is a French philosopher.

Biography

André Comte-Sponville was born in Paris, France. He studied in the École Normale Supérieure and earned a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and is aggregated in philosophy.[1] He is a proponent of atheism and materialism, but in a particular form, because of his spiritualistic aim.[2]

The most important aspect of his work is an overcoming of traditional materialistic atheism in a perspective of post-materialism, because he demonstrates a spiritualization of atheism. This is especially present in his essay L'esprit de l'athéisme [fr], published in 2006.[citation needed]

Bibliography

  • Traité du désespoir et de la béatitude (2 volumes, 1984-1988)
  • Une éducation philosophique (1989)
  • L'amour la solitude (1992)
  • Petit Traité des Grandes Vertus (A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues or A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues) (1995), Translated into English by Catherine Temerson, Vintage, 2003, ISBN 0-09-943798-8
  • Valeur et vérité (Etudes cyniques) (1995),
  • Impromptus (1996)
  • La sagesse des Modernes, written with Luc Ferry
  • L'être temps (1999)
  • Présentation de la philosophie (2000) (The Little Book of Philosophy) (2005), Translated into English by Frank Wynne, Vintage, 2005, ISBN 9780099450184
  • Le bonheur, désespérément (2000)
  • Le capitalisme est-il moral? (2004)
  • L'esprit de l'athéisme (2006) Translation: The Book of Atheist Spirituality, Bantam (2009) ISBN 978-0-553-81990-8
  • Le miel et l'absinthe : Poésie et philosophie chez Lucrèce (2008)
  • Le tragique de la décision médicale : La mort d'un enfant ou la naissance de l'absurde with Denis Devictor (2008)

Audio

  • "Le bonheur - visions occidentale et chinoise", a three CD spoken word audio conference and discussion with Francois Julien, 2007.

References

  1. ^ a b Comte-Sponville (in French). Retrieved 1 January 2020 – via BnF Catalogue Général.
  2. ^ The Book of Atheist Spirituality reviewed in The Guardian by Steven Poole 4 October 2008


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