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Grandeur du petit peuple: Heurs et malheurs des Gilets jaunes
« La France est plus que jamais coupée en deux : non pas la droite et la gauche, non pas les libéraux et les anti-libéraux, non pas les progressistes et les souverainistes, mais d'une part ceux sur lesquels s'exerce le pouvoir, que je nomme le peuple, et d'autre part ceux qui exercent le pouvoir, les élites comme il est dit.
Soyez résolus de ne plus servir et vous voilà libres ! Ce mot de La Boétie doit devenir l'impératif catégorique d'une gauche libertaire et populaire, populiste même si l'on veut, car il n'y a que deux côtés de la barricade, et je ne crains pas de dire que j'ai choisi le camp du peuple contre le camp de ceux qui l'étranglent. »
Michel Onfray
Soyez résolus de ne plus servir et vous voilà libres ! Ce mot de La Boétie doit devenir l'impératif catégorique d'une gauche libertaire et populaire, populiste même si l'on veut, car il n'y a que deux côtés de la barricade, et je ne crains pas de dire que j'ai choisi le camp du peuple contre le camp de ceux qui l'étranglent. »
Michel Onfray
384 pages, Paperback
Published January 15, 2020
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About the author
Michel Onfray
374 books520 followersMichel Onfray is a French philosopher. Born to a family of Norman farmers, he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy. He taught this subject to senior students at a technical high school in Caen between 1983 and 2002, before establishing what he and his supporters call the Université populaire de Caen, proclaiming its foundation on a free-of-charge basis, and the manifesto written by Onfray in 2004 (La communauté philosophique). However, the title 'Popular University' is misleading, although attractive, as this 'University' provides no services other than the occasional delivery of lectures - there is no register of students, no examination or assessment, and no diplomas. After all, 'ordinary' French University lectures are open to all, free of charge. Nor is the content of the Université populaire de Caen radical in French terms, it is in its way, a throwback to less democratic traditions of learning. Both in his writing and his lecturing, Onfray's approach is hierarchical, and elitist. He prefers to say though that his 'university' is committed to deliver high-level knowledge to the masses, as opposed to the more common approach of vulgarizing philosophic concepts through easy-to-read books such as "Philosophy for Well-being".
Onfray writes obscurely that there is no philosophy without psychoanalysis. Perhaps paradoxically, he proclaims himself as an adamant atheist (something more novel in France than elsewhere - indeed his book, 'Atheist Manifesto', was briefly in the 'bestsellers' list in France) and he considers religion to be indefensible. He instead regards himself as being part of the tradition of individualist anarchism, a tradition that he claims is at work throughout the entire history of philosophy and that he is seeking to revive amidst modern schools of philosophy that he feels are cynical and epicurean. His writings celebrate hedonism, reason and atheism.
He endorsed the French Revolutionary Communist League and its candidate for the French presidency, Olivier Besancenot in the 2002 election, although this is somewhat at odds with the libertarian socialism he advocates in his writings.[citation needed] In 2007, he endorsed José Bové - but eventually voted for Olivier Besancenot - , and conducted an interview with the future French President, who he declared was an 'ideological enemy' Nicolas Sarkozy for Philosophie Magazine.
Onfray himself attributes the birth of a philosophic communities such as the université populaire to the results of the French presidential election, 2002.
Onfray writes obscurely that there is no philosophy without psychoanalysis. Perhaps paradoxically, he proclaims himself as an adamant atheist (something more novel in France than elsewhere - indeed his book, 'Atheist Manifesto', was briefly in the 'bestsellers' list in France) and he considers religion to be indefensible. He instead regards himself as being part of the tradition of individualist anarchism, a tradition that he claims is at work throughout the entire history of philosophy and that he is seeking to revive amidst modern schools of philosophy that he feels are cynical and epicurean. His writings celebrate hedonism, reason and atheism.
He endorsed the French Revolutionary Communist League and its candidate for the French presidency, Olivier Besancenot in the 2002 election, although this is somewhat at odds with the libertarian socialism he advocates in his writings.[citation needed] In 2007, he endorsed José Bové - but eventually voted for Olivier Besancenot - , and conducted an interview with the future French President, who he declared was an 'ideological enemy' Nicolas Sarkozy for Philosophie Magazine.
Onfray himself attributes the birth of a philosophic communities such as the université populaire to the results of the French presidential election, 2002.
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June 27, 2020
Plutôt qu'un livre, un pamphlet de soutien aux gilets jaunes, et une démonstration argumentée de la peur que ce mouvement fit aux élites qui nous gouvernent. Même si souvent excessive sur la forme comme sur le fond, l'analyse est bien écrite, toujours construite et parfois convaincante. Onfray désoriente en revanche son lecteur par ses phobies et ses apriori douteux. Girondin -ou plutôt monarchiste repentie, se prétendant proudhonien, il se coupe par sa haine du jacobinisme de la tradition républicaine et donc du souverainisme. Remplacant l ennemi judeo bolchevique para un islamo gauchisme, il cherche à faire oublier des remontées d ultra droite par un farouche combat en faveur du féminisme et contre l'antisémitisme, dont le lecteur a trop fortement l impression qu il s agit plus de dedouanement que de convictions. Les gilets jaunes devront attendre des défeuseurs moins confus.
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August 7, 2020Dans ce livre, Michel ONFRAY revient sur le mouvement des gilets jaunes. Il met en parallèle ce mouvement avec d'autres soulèvements du peuple.
Les Enragés de la Révolution notamment.
Et toujours cette revendication première : avoir de quoi nourrir sa famille.
Un bémol, l'écriture de Michel ONFRAY a un côté répétitif qui peut agacer aux non-initiés de cet auteur.
Déçu également par la conclusion de Michel ONFRAY sur le mouvement des Gilets Jaunes.
Contrairement aux dires de ONFRAY, je ne pense pas que ce mouvement a été détruit.
Les Enragés de la Révolution notamment.
Et toujours cette revendication première : avoir de quoi nourrir sa famille.
Un bémol, l'écriture de Michel ONFRAY a un côté répétitif qui peut agacer aux non-initiés de cet auteur.
Déçu également par la conclusion de Michel ONFRAY sur le mouvement des Gilets Jaunes.
Contrairement aux dires de ONFRAY, je ne pense pas que ce mouvement a été détruit.
September 11, 2020
A wonderful and most important lecture!
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