Gord_in_Toronto
17th December 2006, 01:32 PM
There is a fairly long article in today's Toronto Star (Dec 17, 2006) about French philospher and atheist Michel Onfray. You can see it (for the next 7 days at least) at:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1166310610301
A brief quote: CAEN, France— "He is a self-described hedonist, atheist, libertarian, and left-wing anarchist. He is also France's best-selling philosopher.
At a time when a French high school teacher was forced into hiding after death threats for writing an article in Le Figaro in September calling Islam a violent, hateful religion and Christianity and Judaism non-violent, loving religions, Michel Onfray has already gone a step further: in Atheist Manifesto he dismantles and condemns as dangerous and archaic not only Islam, but Christianity and Judaism as well.
And after more than 30 books, he is finally seeing his ideas spread far beyond his native Normandy. His 2005 book, Traité d'athéologie, became a best-seller not only in France, where it has sold 230,000 copies, but also in Italy and Spain, and has sold well in other Latin countries, and even in Germany and Asia.
In the new year, it will become the first of his books to be translated into English. Published under the title Atheist Manifesto, it will arrive in Canada from Penguin in February."
Sounds like he could be an interesting addition to the voices on the side of atheism such as Dawkins, etc.
I presume it might be published in the UK, USA and what remains of the Commonwealth about the same time.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1166310610301
A brief quote: CAEN, France— "He is a self-described hedonist, atheist, libertarian, and left-wing anarchist. He is also France's best-selling philosopher.
At a time when a French high school teacher was forced into hiding after death threats for writing an article in Le Figaro in September calling Islam a violent, hateful religion and Christianity and Judaism non-violent, loving religions, Michel Onfray has already gone a step further: in Atheist Manifesto he dismantles and condemns as dangerous and archaic not only Islam, but Christianity and Judaism as well.
And after more than 30 books, he is finally seeing his ideas spread far beyond his native Normandy. His 2005 book, Traité d'athéologie, became a best-seller not only in France, where it has sold 230,000 copies, but also in Italy and Spain, and has sold well in other Latin countries, and even in Germany and Asia.
In the new year, it will become the first of his books to be translated into English. Published under the title Atheist Manifesto, it will arrive in Canada from Penguin in February."
Sounds like he could be an interesting addition to the voices on the side of atheism such as Dawkins, etc.
I presume it might be published in the UK, USA and what remains of the Commonwealth about the same time.