Reading Michel Onfray’s written essays is illuminating, but listening to the full audio of La contre-histoire de la philosophie offers an entirely different intellectual experience.

) covers these topics across its 10+ volumes. The specific Freud critique is most directly found in the standalone book Freud: Le Crépuscule d'un idole

To help me provide more specific details about this philosophical series, could you share a bit more context?

: Large portions of Onfray’s lectures were broadcast on national radio. Their digital podcast apps and online archives occasionally cycle through full volumes of the counter-history for public streaming.

He resurrects forgotten figures: from the Cyrenaics to Lucretius, from Spinoza (the "anti-Plato") to the French Enlightenment materialists like Diderot and La Mettrie. The project is as much a political act as a philosophical one: philosophy should serve the body, pleasure, and immanent joy, not an afterlife or abstract duty.

While the exact breakdown of Volume 16 focuses on specific late-modern transitions, it operates within Onfray's broader framework of championing radical alternative thinkers. Throughout the later segments of the audio counter-history, listeners are introduced to deeply influential yet marginalized perspectives: