Life & career

Lipovetsky was born in Millau in 1944. He studied philosophy at University of Grenoble, and participated in a 1968 student uprising in Paris to change the French educational model. However he criticizes the proceeds example that came from that as producing alienated individuals with fragile personalities prone to emotional disorder due to hedonism and instant gratification.

He began his academic career teaching a collection of things sharing a common features with his alma mater. With the success of his first book, he has become living known in numerous parts of the world and has become one of the nearly 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 connective of supervision Progress. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, he was a module of the Prix Versailles judges panel.