Las avalanchas de Sils Maria

by Michel Onfray

Gran conocedor del pensamiento de Nietzsche, Michel Onfray se propone en este libro hallar las condiciones biográficas de la producción de los conceptos nietzscheanos. Resigue en Sils Maria (Suiza) los pasos de un autor que siempre defendió que la filosofía se hace caminando. Contra «una multitud de pensadores sentados a una mesa, encorvados sobre los libros, la cabeza inclinada sobre las palabras que han de decir el mundo, pero que lo han borrado en beneficio de las ideas», Sils Maria será para Nietzsche el lugar adecuado para su proyecto vitalista. No en vano, es en Sils María donde, como una epifanía pagana, surge en Nietzsche la idea del eterno retorno.

Explicando Nietzsche a través de los escenarios de sus paseos, Michel Onfray polemiza con lecturas sesgadas del autor del Zaratustra, especialmente con las que no distinguen la obra editada de la póstuma: Onfray considera que el pensamiento de Nietzsche hay que ir a extraerlo de los textos publicados en vida del autor. Explorándolos en profundidad, el autor expone con lucidez y ambición algunas de las grandes afirmaciones del pensador de Sils Maria: Dios no existe; la voluntad de poder lo es todo; el libre albedrío no existe; el eterno retorno dicta la ley; el amor fati crea al superhombre.

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2019

About the author

Michel 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.

Reviews

[Vendedor de rápida · Rating 2 out of 5]

El filósofo francés dedica a Sils Maria sólo la primera parte del libro, siguiendo los pasos de Nietzsche para comprender mejor su pensamiento en su contexto vital. Después hay un resumen de las líneas esenciales del alemán, donde se rebaten las interpretaciones que conectan a Nietzsche con el autoritarismo, y el texto concluye con una descripción de unas jornadas sobre el filósofo donde se mezcla el humor con el ajuste de cuentas.

[Γιάννης · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ο Μισέλ Ονφρέ μας συστήνει τον Νίτσε μέσα από έναν διάλογο με το έργο του στο γενέθλιο τόπο του Ζαρατούστρα, το Σιλς-Μαρία.

Έχει ιδιαίτερο ενδιαφέρον για όσους δεν είναι εξοικειωμένοι με τον Νίτσε να αναγνωρίσουν τις πτυχές που τον ξεχωρίζουν αλλά και να λυθούν οι παρεξηγήσεις σε σχέση με τις κατηγορίες που του προσάπτουν.

[Kretakoa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ενδιαφέρον βιβλίο για τον πάντα αγαπημένο Νίτσε!

[Coronel Trauman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fonamental per entendre Nietzsche

[Kostas Kanellopoulos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Τιμ Νίτσε φορεβα