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• André Comte-Sponville (born 1952) is a French philosopher, proponent of atheism and materialism. He was born in Paris, France. He studied in the École Normale Supérieure, and is aggregated in philosophy. The most important aspect of this philosopher is an overcoming of traditional materialistic atheism in a perspective of post-materialism, because he show some spiritualization of atheism. Specially present in the essay L'Esprit de l'athéisme, published in 2006. Some of his most recent works include:
•  La sagesse des Modernes, written with Luc Ferry
• L'être temps (1999)
• Présentation de la philosophie (2000)
• Le Bonheur, désespérément (2000)
• Le capitalisme est-il moral? (2004)
• L'Esprit de l'athéisme (2006)
• "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).