Research Catalog

Title

Hypermodern times / by Gilles Lipovetsky with Sébastien Charles ; translated by Andrew Brown.

Author

Lipovetsky, Gilles, 1944-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Charles, Sébastien
• Brown, Andrew.

Description

ix, 90 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Gilles Lipovetsky, French social theorist, argues that we've entered a new phase of 'hypermodernity', characterized by hyper-consumption and the hypermodern individual. Hyperconsumption is a consumption which absorbs and integrates more and more spheres of social life and which encourages individuals to consume for their own personal pleasure rather than to enhance their social status. Hypermodernity is a society characterized by movement, fluidity and flexibility, distanced more than ever from the great structuring principles of modernity. And the hypermodern individual, while oriented towards pleasure and hedonism, is also filled with the kind of tension and anxiety that comes from living in a world which has been stripped of tradition and which faces an uncertain future.

Uniform Title

Temps hypermodernes. English

Alternative Title

Temps hypermodernes.

Subject

• Lipovetsky, Gilles, 1944-
• Postmodernism
• Individualism

Note

• Originally published in French as "Temps hypermodernes": Paris : Grasset, 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [88]-90)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Paradoxical individualism: an introduction to the thought of Gilles Lipovetsky / Sébastein Charles -- Time against time: Or the hypermodern society -- Stages in an intellectual itinerary: a conversation between Gilles Lipovetsky and Sébastien Charles -- Bibliography of publications by Gilles Lipovetsky.

ISBN

• 0745634206
• 0745634214 (pbk)

LCCN

^^2005296280

OCLC

• 61401932
• SCSB-11849403

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library