Gilles Lipovetsky
philosopher and writer

• Professor of Philosophy, holder of a Chair: 1970

• Knight of the Legion of Honor: 2003

• honorary doctor of the University of Sherbrook (Canada): 2001

• honorary doctor of the New Bulgarian University of Sofia (Bulgaria): 2005

• honorary doctor of the University of Aveiro (Portugal): 2013

• honorary doctor of the University of Vera Cruz (Mexico): 2015

• honorary doctor of the Universidad Autónoma de los Caribes Barranquilla (Colombia): 2015

• honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil): 2015

• Curator of the exhibition "Pantalla Global at the CCCB (Barcelona) in 2012.

• Honorary Member of the committee European Honorary Doctors, 2017

Published books:

• The Age of Emptiness (1983)- Gallimard

• The Empire of the Ephemeral (1987)- Gallimard

• The Twilight of Duty (1992)- Gallimard

• Metamorphosis of Liberal Culture (2002) Liber (Canada)

• Eternal Luxury: From the Age of the Sacred to the Time of Brands (2003)- Gallimard

• Hypermodern Times (2004)- Gallimard

• Paradoxical Happiness: essay on the hyperconsumption society (2006)- Gallimard

• The Society of Deception (2006)- Textuel

• The Global Screen (2007)- Seuil

• Culture-world. A response to a disoriented society (2008)- Odile Jacob

• The Globalized West (2010)- Grasset

• The Statization of the world: living in the age of artistic capitalism (2013)- Gallimard.

• Of lightness (2015)- Grasset

• Pleasing and touching. essay on the seduction society (2017) award Montyon de l'Académie Française (2018)