Gilles Lipovetsky: “if You Want to Live Better, Fall in Love, Take Prozac, Do Not Look in Philosophy”

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There was a time when philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky (Millau, 1944) would sneak into our houses when we had gone out to do some errand. He would stir between the drawers of the kitchen, listen to our records, put our clothes on and even dig into what we threw into the trash. Everything that had no apparent importance, or at least for the intellectual class of the time, served to build the mirror in which we looked in the last 30 years. Through fa…