Interview with Michel Onfray, Hedonist Philosopher.

Some years ago Michel Onfray (1959) appeared described in the cultural supplement of La Vanguardia as a Nietzscheanian iconoclast. Today Onfray, PD, is one the most read and prestigious thinkers in the neighbouring country. His works have progressively been translated into Spanish: El vientre de los filósofos (R&R, 1996), Cinismos (Paidós, 2002), Teoría del cuerpo enamorado (Pre-Textos, 2002) and Tratado de ateología (Anagrama, 2005; also in Catalan). His Anti-manual, talked about in this interview, has also been recently translated (Edaf, 2005, with foreword by J.A. Marina). Onfray is known for having popularised –not necessarily banalised- the ideas of thinkers like Deleuze or Foucault. He is a materialist hedonist and has just quit teaching in a French secondary school to found, together with other filosophy teachers, a popular university in Caen, in the fashion of those born in France in the time of the Dreyfus affaire on in Spain under the guidance of Blasco Ibáñez, amongst others. Entrance to such university is free and lectures are not accompanied by exams, nor are there official titles. We talked to him via e-mail