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Michel Onfray

1959 - Today

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Michel Onfray (French: [miʃɛl ɔ̃fʁɛ]; born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly-prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such thinkers as Nietzsche, Epicurus, the Cynic and Cyrenaic schools, as well as French materialism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Onfray has received more than 527,454 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Onfray is the 944th most popular philosopher (down from 912th in 2019), the 3,353rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,110th in 2019) and the 117th most popular French Philosopher.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Michel Onfray ranks 944 out of 1,081. Before him are Eudorus of Alexandria, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Ramiro Ledesma Ramos, Richard Swinburne, Nikolay Lossky, and George Gerbner. After him are Zhang Binglin, Rudolf Stammler, Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Daniel Bensaïd, David of Dinant, and Camillo Berneri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Michel Onfray ranks 145. Before him are David Koresh, Tobias Moretti, Éric Serra, Pete Burns, Nick Cassavetes, and Mauricio Funes. After him are Christian Thielemann, Nicole Brown Simpson, Guy Laliberté, Norm Macdonald, Koichi Tanaka, and Ildefonso Falcones.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Onfray ranks 3,353 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques Tardi (1946), Marc Levy (1961), Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Ligier Richier (1500), Dominique Perrault (1953), and Maria Deraismes (1828). After him are Charles Renard (1847), Sabine Azéma (1949), Pierre Magnol (1638), Jehanne D'Alcy (1865), André Prévost (1860), and Charles Simon Favart (1710).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Michel Onfray ranks 117. Before him are Firmin Abauzit (1679), Élisabeth Badinter (1944), Pierre Nicole (1625), Jean Rostand (1894), Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618), and Édouard Le Roy (1870). After him are Daniel Bensaïd (1946), Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940), Clémence Royer (1830), Bernard Stiegler (1952), Guillaume Faye (1949), and Rémi Brague (1947).

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