Philosophizing from Rage. An Introduction to Jean Meslier’s Radical Philosophy

Abstract

My aim is to present the work of Jean Meslier and to give some keys, so that the reading of said work may be interesting for our time. My idea is that our reading should not be a study on Meslier, but on the way in which pain, hatred and anger forge his work – and what this entails when one attempts to write against injustice and inequality. In the first place, it implies a given speechlessness, lacking the words with which we usually speak in our unfair and unequal world, since they become illegitimate precisely in our sharing such world.