Michel Onfray
Michel Onfray (French: [miʃɛl ɔ fʁɛ]; born 1 January 1959) is a contemporary French writer and philosopher who adheres to hedonism, atheism, and anarchism. He is a highly prolific author on philosophy, having written more than 50 books. He has gained notoriety for writing such works as Physiologie de Georges Palante, portrait d'un nietzchéen de gauche, Politique du rebelle: traité de résistance et d'insoumission, Traité d'athéologie: Physique de la métaphysique (translated into English as Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), La puissance d'exister and La sculpture de soi for which he won the annual Prix Médicis in 1993. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinkers as Nietzsche, Epicurus, the cynic and cyrenaic schools, French materialism, and individualist anarchism.