Michel Onfray, lecteur de Victor Segalen

Resumo

This study examines the reception of Victor Segalen’s work and life by Michel Onfray. In this sense, we look at his book published by Gallimard in 2017: Le désir ultramarin, les Marquises après les Marquises. Through the analysis of a few passages from the book, we try to show how Onfray proposes a new reading of Segalen’s work. Onfray’s originality is to have the opportunity, as a philosopher, to take the reflection on the traveller’s theoretical and literary work a little further than others do, and to clearly demonstrate the affinities between Segalen and Nietzsche.