Speaker of the day: André Comte-Sponville — Philosophy & Future Studies

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Language spoken by the speaker:

• French

André Comte-Sponville delivers keynote conferences across French-speaking Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Vaud, Neuchâtel…).

In the media…

André Comte-Sponville has appeared numerous times on television, notably invited by Michel Polac, Bernard Pivot, Jean-Marie Cavada, Christine Ockrent, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, Guillaume Durand, Michel Field, Laure Adler, Serge Moati, Jean-Marc Sylvestre, Thierry Ardisson, Frédéric Taddeï, Laurent Ruquier, and François Busnel.

He was the focus of issue 258 of the Revue internationale de philosophie published in 2011, while in January 2020, an issue of the highly prestigious Cahiers de l’Herne was dedicated to his philosophical work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k22OauIEYw

Current Positions & Activities

• Member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (Comité Consultatif National d’Éthique) from 2008 to 2016
• Director General of the Institut Diderot since February 2021.
• Keynote speaker for numerous associations (Association Progrès du Management, CJD, CGPME…) and corporations (Crédit Agricole, Thomson, PSA, Total, EDF, Groupama, Vivendi, Azur GMF, Crédit Mutuel, Crédit coopératif, AXA, Vinci, Renault, Banques Populaires, GDF-SUEZ, Thalès, BNP-Paribas, MAAF, Castorama, OCTO Technology, Allianz, Adidas, ENGIE…).
• Founder of a company to manage his speaking engagements, whose name bears his initials: l’Art de Conférer Sarl.
• Best-selling philosophical author, André Comte-Sponville established his place in the philosophical world from his very first book: Traité du désespoir et de la béatitude, now in its thirteenth edition.
• A contributor to numerous academic symposia and publications, he notably directed three issues of the Revue internationale de philosophie, devoted respectively to Montaigne (No. 181, 1992), Pascal (No. 199, 1997), and Alain (No. 215, 2001).
• André Comte-Sponville regularly writes for mainstream press (L’Express, Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur, L’Événement du Jeudi, L’Expansion, Le Monde, Le Figaro, La Croix, Libération, Le Magazine littéraire, Impact-Médecin Hebdo, Psychologies…).
• Weekly columnist for Challenges magazine.

https://youtu.be/SKs2jcQskZY

Keynote Topics of André Comte-Sponville

• Philosophy and Medicine
• Is Capitalism Moral?
• Meaning of Work, Happiness, and Motivation
• Philosophy of Management
• Globalization and Civilizations: What Values for the 21st Century?
• Love

Books

Most Accessible Books

• L’amour la solitude and Présentations de la philosophie (Éditions Albin Michel)
• Le bonheur, désespérément (Ed. Pleins Feux)
• Impromptus (PUF, 1996)
• La vie humaine (Hermann, 2005)

Most Famous Book

Petit traité des grandes vertus, published in January 1995 by PUF (Prix La Bruyère of the Académie Française, 300,000 copies sold in France, translated into 24 languages).

Recent Works

• Dictionnaire philosophique (PUF, 2001, enlarged ed. 2021)
• Le capitalisme est-il moral ? (Albin Michel, 2004, reissued 2009 with a new afterword)
• La philosophie (PUF, coll. « Que sais-je ? », 2005)
• L’esprit de l’athéisme (Introduction à une spiritualité sans Dieu), Albin Michel, 2006
• Le miel et l’absinthe (Poésie et philosophie chez Lucrèce), Hermann, 2008
• Du corps, PUF, 2009
• Le goût de vivre et cent autres propos, Albin Michel, 2010
• Le sexe ni la mort (Trois essais sur l’amour et la sexualité), Albin Michel, 2012
• Du tragique au matérialisme, et retour (Vingt-six études sur Montaigne, Pascal, Spinoza, Nietzsche et quelques autres), PUF, 2015
• Le plaisir de penser (Une introduction à la philosophie), Vuibert, 2015
• C’est chose tendre que la vie (Entretiens avec François L’Yvonnet), Albin Michel, September 2015
• L’inconsolable et autres impromptus, PUF, 2018
• Contre la peur et cent autres propos, Albin Michel, 2019
• Dictionnaire amoureux de Montaigne, Plon, 2020
• Que le meilleur gagne !, Robert Laffont, 2021