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Gilles Lipovetsky (born September 24, 1944 in Millau) is a French philosopher, writer and sociologist, professor at the University of Grenoble.

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)

See also

• Homo consumericus
• Hypermodernity

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