1. Gilles Lipovetsky studied philosophy at the University of Paris, and participated in the 1968 student uprising in Paris to change the French educational model.
10 Facts About Gilles Lipovetsky
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Gilles Lipovetsky began his academic career teaching classes with his alma mater.
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Gilles Lipovetsky's work focuses on the modern world from the latter 20th century to the present.
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Gilles Lipovetsky has divided this period into three periods: "Marxist self-criticism", post-modern and the hyper-modern period.
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Gilles Lipovetsky then proposed "hyper-modern," similar to post-modern but with a superlative and unstoppable meaning, focusing on new technologies, markets, and global culture.
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From his 1983 book which brought him to prominence, Gilles 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.
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Gilles Lipovetsky defines individualism as the desire to break with tradition and the past and to look towards the future and our own pleasure.
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Gilles Lipovetsky has made provocative statements on modern life and elements related to it, which have been often at odds with intellectual trends of the last decades.
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Gilles Lipovetsky has compared fashion with democracy as unstable, ephemeral and superficial, but states it as a positive and more workable than a more interdependent society.
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Gilles Lipovetsky believes that consumption should be a means to an end, not an end in itself and believes that concerns such as ecology are not incompatible with capitalism.