Luc Ferry
Luc Ferry | |
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| Minister for Youth, National Education and Research Ministre de la Jeunesse, de l'Éducation nationale et de la Recherche | |
| In office 7 May 2002 – 31 March 2004 | |
| President | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister | Jean-Pierre Raffarin |
| Preceded by | Jack Lang |
| Succeeded by | François Fillon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1951 Colombes, France |
| Political party | UMP |
| Profession | Philosopher |
Luc Ferry (born January 1, 1951 in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of Secular Humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.
He received an Agrégation de philosophie (l975), a Doctorat d’Etat en science politique (1981), and an Agrégation de science politique (1982). As a Professor of political science and political philosophy, Luc Ferry taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (1982-1988) - during which time he also taught and directed graduate research at the Universite de Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne) - at the University of Caen (1989-19), and at the Paris Diderot University (since 1996).
From 2002 and until 2004 he served as the Minister of Education on the cabinet led by the conservative Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. During his tenure, he was the minister in charge of the implementation of the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools. He received the award of Docteur honoris causa from the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada).
Works
- La pensée '68 (1985)
- Homo Aestheticus (1990)
- The New Ecological Order (1992)
- Rights: The New Quarrel Between the Ancients and the Moderns
- Man Made God: The Meaning of Life (1992)
- The Wisdom of the Moderns (1998)
- Political Philosophy
- French Philosophy of the 60'ies with Alain Renaut
- Why We Are Not Nietzscheans, editor with Alain Renaut
- Le religieux après la religion (2004) with Marcel Gauchet
- Apprendre à vivre (2006)
- Vaincre les peurs. La philosophie comme amour de la sagesse,(2006), éditions Odile Jacob.
- Kant. Une lecture des trois Critiques,(2006), éditions Grasset.
- Familles, je vous aime : Politique et vie privée à l'âge de la mondialisation,(2007), XO Editions.
- La tentation du christianisme with Lucien Jerphagnon, (2009), éditions Grasset.
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