L'Odyssée de la surpuissance / Superpower: An Odyssey [French]

By Gilles Lipovetsky

'We are living in exceptional times: it is like a Big Bang that is redrawing the very outlines of our civilisation.' According to Gilles Lipovetsky, thinker of hypermodernity, we are going through a period of upheaval that is shaking all spheres of life: scientific, technological, environmental, economic, political, cultural and individual.
Phenomenal technological advances are propelling us into the unknown in the fields of life sciences, artificial intelligence and space exploration. The capitalist economy has spread across the globe, transforming every reality, every desire and every dream into a commodity. Finally, this era is accompanied by extreme individualisation, which is reconfiguring individuals' relationship with their identity and their world.
At the same time, the ecological crisis is threatening the planet, the political and geopolitical order is faltering, and democratic vitality is weakening. Migration, wars, nationalism and populism, terrorism, the dismantling of the international order: we are living in an era of profound insecurity.
According to Gilles Lipovetsky, we are witnessing the emergence of a new stage of modernity, harbinger of a new civilisation: that of superpower, where all limits are pushed back, with new vulnerabilities as a counterpoint.
This book offers a general theory at the crossroads of anthropology and history. It aims to reflect on the hypermodern condition and seeks keys to the future

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 241501575X
• ISBN13: 9782415015756
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Odile Jacob
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"