André Comte-Sponville (born 12 March 1952) is a French philosopher.
Biography André Comte-Sponville was born in Paris, France. He studied in the École Normale Supérieure and earned a PhD from Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and is aggregated in philosophy. He is a proponent of atheism and materialism, but in a particular form, because of his spiritualistic aim.The Book of Atheist Spirituality reviewed in The Guardian by Steven Poole 4 October 2008
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 , 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 (A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues or A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues) (1995), Translated into English by Catherine Temerson, Vintage, 2003, 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) (The Little Book of Philosophy) (2005), Translated into English by Frank Wynne, Vintage, 2005, Le bonheur, désespérément (2000) Le capitalisme est-il moral? (2004) L'esprit de l'athéisme (2006) Translated into English as The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, Bantam (2009) 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) Le sexe ni la mort (2012), edition Albin Michel.
Audio "Le bonheur - visions occidentale et chinoise", a three CD spoken word audio conference and discussion with Francois Julien, 2007.
Television Philosophy Masterclass for Libération (DVD, Éditions Montparnasse) : L’Amour (with Robert Maggiori, Anne Dufourmantelle, Michel Erman and Nicolas Grimaldi)
References
External links Brief interview with André Comte-Sponville (video) Comte-Sponville's website