Luc Ferry

Luc Ferry (born January 1 1951) is a French philosopher and a notable proponent of Secular Humanism. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.

As a Professor of political science and political philosophy, Luc Ferry taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon (1982-1988) 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.

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)

External links

* [http://www.prio.no/page/Forsiden_detaljer/PRIO_news_brief_2006/9222/47270.html PRIO page]
*fr icon [http://politique.fluctuat.net/luc-ferry.html]