André Comte-Sponville

André Comte-Sponville (born 12 March 1952) is a French philosopher born in Paris, France. He studied in the École Normale Supérieure, and is aggregated in philosophy. He is a proponent of atheism and materialism, but in a particular form, because of his spiritualistic aim.

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 L'Esprit de l'athéisme, 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 Translation:(A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues or A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues) (1995), Translated into English by Catherine Temerson, Vintage, 2003, ISBN 0099437988
• 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)
• Le Bonheur, désespérément (2000)
• Le capitalisme est-il moral? (2004)
• L'Esprit de l'athéisme (2006) Translation: The Book of Atheist Spirituality, Bantam (2009) ISBN 978-0553819908
• 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)

Other works

• "Le Bonheur - Visions Occidentale Et Chinoise", A three CD spoken word audio conference and discussion with Francois Julien, 2007.

External links

• Conference Toutes les cultures se valent-elles, La Sorbonne 10 November 2007 (mindmap)
• Brief interview with André Comte-Sponville (video)
• The Book of Atheist Spirituality reviewed in The Guardian by Steven Poole 4 October 2008
• Comte-Sponville's website

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