André Comte-Sponville
Born	(1952-03-12) 12 March 1952 (age 72)[1] Paris, France
Nationality	French
Education	École normale supérieure Pantheon-Sorbonne University (PhD)
Occupation	Philosopher

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.^[1] He is a proponent of atheism and materialism, but in a particular form, because of his spiritualistic aim.^[2]

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 [fr], published in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

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, ISBN 0-09-943798-8
• 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, ISBN 9780099450184
• 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 978-0-553-81990-8
• 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)

Audio

• "Le bonheur - visions occidentale et chinoise", a three CD spoken word audio conference and discussion with Francois Julien, 2007.

References

External links

• Brief interview with André Comte-Sponville (video)
• Comte-Sponville's website