Name: On Love
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Author: Luc Ferry
ISBN: 9780745670171

Type

Physical Book

Author

Luc Ferry

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0745670172

ISBN13

9780745670171

Edition No.

Synopsis "On Love "

All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of the modern family and in the passage from traditional to modern marriage, that has transformed our lives in profound and often unrecognized ways: love. It affects not only our personal lives but many aspects of our social and collective life too, from art and education to politics. In this book Luc Ferry shows how the quiet rise of love as the central value in modern societies has created a new principle of meaning and a new definition of the good life that requires a completely different kind of philosophical thinking. It forms the basis for a new philosophy for the twenty-first century and a new kind of humanism for the modern world - not a humanism of reason and rights, but a humanism of solidarity and sympathy. The ideal that this new humanism realizes is no longer that of nationalisms and revolutions, of the perpetrating of organized violence in the name of deadly principles that are pursued over and above humanity. Rather, it is about preparing and ensuring a future for those we love most: our future generations.

Luc Ferry

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Luc Ferry (born January 3, 1951 in Colombes, France) is a philosopher, writer, and politician noted for his advocacy of secular humanism. Educated at the Sorbonne and the University of Heidelberg, he earned an aggregation in philosophy and political science, as well as a State doctorate in political science. Throughout his academic career, he taught at institutions such as the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon and the universities of Caen and Paris VII. Moreover, he served as the Minister of National Education, Youth, and Research in France from 2002 to 2004.

Among his most prominent works are "The New Ecological Order" (1992), which received the Médicis Essay Prize and the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Prize, and "The God-Man or the Meaning of Life" (1996), awarded the Human Rights Prize. His book "Learning to Live" (2006) became a bestseller in France, with over 300,000 copies sold. Ferry has tackled topics such as political philosophy, ecology, and the meaning of life in his writings, bringing philosophy to a broad audience outside the academic sphere.

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