André Comte-Sponville Explained
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 , published in 2006.
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,
- 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,
- Le bonheur, désespérément (2000)
- Le capitalisme est-il moral? (2004)
- L'esprit de l'athéisme (2006) Translation: The Book of Atheist Spirituality, Bantam (2009)
- 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.
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Comte-Sponville . BnF Catalogue Général . 1 January 2020. fr.
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/04/books.atheist.spirituality/print The Book of Atheist Spirituality reviewed in The Guardian by Steven Poole 4 October 2008
