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Gilles Lipovetsky
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| Born | September 24, 1944 |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
Gilles Lipovetsky (born September 24, 1944) is a French philosopher, writer, and sociologist, professor at Stendhal University in Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
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Life and career
Lipovetsky was born in Millau in 1944. He studied philosophy at University of Grenoble, and participated in the 1968 student uprising in Paris to change the French educational model. However he criticizes the model that came from that as producing alienated individuals with fragile personalities prone to emotional disorder due to hedonism and immediate gratification.
He began his academic career teaching classes with his alma mater. With the success of his first book, he has become well known in many parts of the world and has become one of the most important French intellectuals of the latter 20th century.
Along with tenure, he has received two honorary doctorates from the Université de Sherbrooke in Québec (Canada) and from the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, membership in the Conseil d'analyse de la société of the French government, knighthood in the Legion of Honor, membership in the National Council of Programs and is a consultant with the Association of Management Progress. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, he was a member of the Prix Versailles judges panel.
Ideas
Lipovetsky began his philosophical career in the 1960s as a Marxist. However, since then, his philosophy has changed significantly, including the acceptance of capitalism as "the only legitimate economic model."
Lipovetsky's work focuses on the modern world from the latter 20th century to the present. His has divided this time period into three periods: "Marxist self criticism" (1965-1983), post- modern (1983-1991) and the hyper modern period from 1991 on. This began with his 1983 book, which declared the world to be post-modern, characterized by extreme individualism and the dissolution of politics based on political parties, turning its back on a strong sense of social duty on which democracy and socialism depend. However, by the end of the 2000s, he proposed that this term had become obsolete and unable to describe the world past 1991. He then proposed "hyper-modern," similar to post-modern but with a superlative and unstoppable meaning, focusing on new technologies, markets, and global culture.
From his 1983 book which brought him to prominence, Lipovetsky has continued to write on topics such as modernity, globalization, consumerism, modern culture, markets, feminism, fashion, and media, but they have the common thread of individualism. He defines individualism as the desire to break with tradition and the past and to look towards the future and our own pleasure.
Publication list
- L'ère du vide : Essais sur l'individualisme contemporain, Gallimard, 1983
- L'Empire de l'éphémère : la mode et son destin dans les sociétés modernes, Gallimard, 1987
- Le Crépuscule du devoir, Gallimard, 1992
- La Troisième femme, Gallimard, 1997
- Métamorphoses de la culture libérale – Éthique, médias, entreprise, Montréal, Édition Liber, 2002
- Le luxe éternel (with Elyette Roux), éditions Gallimard, 2003
- Les temps hypermodernes, éditions Grasset, 2004
- Le bonheur paradoxal. Essai sur la société d'hyperconsommation, éditions Gallimard, 2006
- La société de déception, éditions Textuel, 2006
- L'écran global. Culture-médias et cinéma à l'âge hypermoderne (with Jean Serroy), Seuil, 2007
- La Culture-monde. Réponse à une société désorientée, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2008 (with Jean Serroy)
- L'Occident mondialisé : Controverse sur la culture planétaire, Paris, Grasset, 2010 (with Hervé Juvin)
See also
In Spanish: Gilles Lipovetsky para niños
- Homo consumericus
- Hypermodernity
