Title : Aesthetics of the North Pole - Michel Onfray - book

Summary :

Since winning the Prix Médicis-essai for La sculpture de soi, Michel Onfray has continued to establish himself as one of the finest essayists of his generation. A long time ago, Michel Onfray's father, a modest man who had never left his Normandy homeland, confessed to his son that, if he could travel, he would love to discover the North Pole. Twenty years later, his son, now a famous writer, decided to make this dream come true and, last June, he took his father for three weeks to this enigmatic and almost inaccessible "pole"... He brought back a book that is at once a travelogue, a philosophy of the cold, a meditation on disappearing civilizations, on the evils of industrialization, on the wisdom of dying peoples. It is also a book of fidelity and filial piety. At the North Pole, Michel Onfray, a hedonistic philosopher, primarily questioned the nature of cultures where pleasure has no place. "Up there," "over there," everything is played out in a logic of survival. He therefore questions stone, space, sites, the repetition of gestures, the conflict between sedentary and nomadic lifestyles. Michel Onfray immersed himself in the thought of the Inuit; he learned about myths, the curious relationships that polar peoples have with nihilism and hope, and the marvelous serenity of these desperate souls. In this approach, we will therefore find (splendid) descriptions, reflections, anecdotes, and echoes of conversations with guides or seal hunters. Of course, Michel Onfray is also an ethnologist, following in the footsteps of Jean Malaurie. He uses this "pole" to reflect on his own epicurean nostalgia for the South. This is an incredibly dense, poetic, and intelligent text. A photographer accompanied Michel Onfray on this journey. He brought back striking images that will be reproduced in a photo notebook inside this book.

• EAN : 9782246629412
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• Book in good condition
• The book matches the photo