Gilles Lipovetsky
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Gilles Lipovetsky is a French
philosopher, writer and sociologist, professor at the University of Grenoble
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In his last essays, Lipovetsky called into question the concept of postmodernity, considering it to be ambiguous and even inadequate. In fact it is a hypermodernity, a "superlative modernity", one characterized by excess, that defines the historical present of democratic societies. All the old hurdles of modernization are buried and there isn't a more credible and legitimate alternative system, no alternative democratic and commercial modernity. This is a time of completed modernity, without an opposite, a deranged and globalized modernity. This second modern revolution is the one, which is reconciled with its basic principles (techno-sciences, democracy, human rights, and the market), and is carried by a hyperbolic process of the modernization of modernity itself. This means more competition, more marketization, more mobility, and more flexibility.
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philosopher, writer and sociologist, professor at the University of Grenoble
Université Stendhal
Stendhal University, Grenoble 3 is a French university situated in the city of Grenoble and focused on the fields of foreign languages and cultures, ancient and modern literature, and the science of language and communication...
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In his last essays, Lipovetsky called into question the concept of postmodernity, considering it to be ambiguous and even inadequate. In fact it is a hypermodernity, a "superlative modernity", one characterized by excess, that defines the historical present of democratic societies. All the old hurdles of modernization are buried and there isn't a more credible and legitimate alternative system, no alternative democratic and commercial modernity. This is a time of completed modernity, without an opposite, a deranged and globalized modernity. This second modern revolution is the one, which is reconciled with its basic principles (techno-sciences, democracy, human rights, and the market), and is carried by a hyperbolic process of the modernization of modernity itself. This means more competition, more marketization, more mobility, and more flexibility.
Works
- 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)
External links
- Interview with Gilles Lipovetsky by Denis Failly about his book Le bonheur paradoxal: Essai sur la société d'hyperconsommation, 2006. (in French)
- Un extrait de Culture-monde: réponse à une société désorientée sur la webtélé de Jacques Languirand: Les repères de Languirand