Luc Ferry
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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.
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.
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- 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
- Why We Are Not Nietzscheans, editor with Alain Renaut
- Le religieux après la religion (2004) with Marcel Gauchet
- Apprendre a vivre (2006)