Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Like the crumbling statues of defeated dictators, the twentieth century has seen a collapse in traditional values-the rise of a liberal globalization that demands the extinction of the most sacred ideals. Starting from this premise, should we rebuild our society? More importantly, which values should we use as the building blocks? The renowned French philosopher affirms that the answer lies in the private sphere of the modern family, not to be interpreted as an ''individualistic niche'' or as a ''relinquishing of world matters,'' but as the extraordinary potential to widen horizons and the breathing illustration of a humanism that has finally reached maturity...read more

An introduction to philosophy focuses on the questions of what it means to be human and how to react to the reality of death by exploring ancient Stoic, Christian, early modern, and contemporary approaches as well as the views of Nietzsche.

Product Description: Las sociedades contemporáneas nos incitan a pensar la «realización» como un modo de soñar despierto. A veces son sueños de posesión. Pero otras veces son sueños de seducción, donde aparecemos al fin como individuos dotados de cualidades sublimes, virtuosos de un instrumento musical del que hasta entonces sólo habíamos extraído sonidos angustiosos, campeones de un deporte que comenzaba a desalentarnos, haciendo gala de virtudes insospechadas ante los demás...read more

What happens when the meaning of life based on a divine revelation no longer makes sense? Does the quest for transcendence end in the pursuit of material success and self-absorption?Luc Ferry argues that modernity and the emergence of secular humanism in Europe since the eighteenth century have not killed the search for meaning and the sacred, or even the idea of God, but rather have transformed both through a dual process: the humanization of the divine and the divinization of the human. Ferry sees evidence for the first of these in the Catholic Church's attempts to counter the growing rejection of dogmatism and to translate the religious tradition into contemporary language. The second he traces to the birth of modern love and humanitarianism, both of which demand a concern for others and even self-sacrifice in defense of values that transcend life itself. Ferry concludes with a powerful statement in favor of what he calls "transcendental humanism"—a concept that for the first time in human history gives us access to a genuine spirituality rooted in human beings instead of the divine. (view table of contents)

Product Description: La pregunta ¿qué sentido tiene la vida ?, monopolizada por la filosofía y las grandes religiones, ha abandonado la esfera pública y se ha convertido en una cuestión íntima y privada. Y el hombre, que se enfrenta ya en solitario a la complejidad de la vida (la muerte, el amor, el deber, por no hablar de cuestiones candente...read more

Product Description: Ensayo de Luc Ferry que propone una explicación a la crisis de nuestra historicidad y una serie de lineamientos críticos para interpretar a partir de los cambios en el orden político, social y cultural que vertiginosamente se han dado en el panorama mundial, las transformaciones del discurso histórico, de su naturaleza conceptual y metodológica...read more

Product Description: Los autores, estudiosos del pensamiento político francés, analizan el origen y desarrollo de los derechos del hombre hasta llegar al republicanismo, que para ellos es la versión de aquella razón que dio comienzo con las revoluciones en los Estados Unidos y Francia.

Product Description: "To think with Nietzsche against Nietzsche." Thus the editors describe the strategy adopted in this volume to soften the destructive effects of Nietzsche's "philosophy with a hammer" on French philosophy since the 1960s. Frustrated by the infinite inclusiveness of deconstructionism, the contributors to this volume seek to renew the Enlightenment quest for rationality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Is ecology in the process of becoming the object of our contemporary passions, in the same way that Fascism was in the 30s, or Communism under Stalin? In The New Ecological Order, Luc Ferry offers a penetrating critique of the ideological roots of the "Deep Ecology" movement spreading throughout Germany, France, and the United States...read more

Product Description: Since its publication in France in 1985, this critique of the main currents in contemporary French thought has prompted debate over the character of postmodern philosophy. Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut offer sociopolitical analysis of the May 1968 student uprising in France, explore the connection between the revolt and the rise of postmodern thought, and question whether student dissent was a genuine humanist reaction to conditions in France at that time...read more

Product Description: "Heidegger and Modernity is an intervention in the Heidegger debate in France which many may see as decisive. Its central claim is that the responses of left Heideggerians to continuing disclosures regarding Heidegger's Nazi affiliations fail to come to terms with central ambiguities in his philosophical responses, both early and late, to modernity and technology...read more