André Comte-Sponville.

Language spoken by the speaker:

• French

André Comte-Sponville gives lectures in French-speaking Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Vaud, Neuchâtel...).

The media talks about him…

André Comte-Sponville has been seen several times on television, invited notably 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 is the subject of issue 258 of the Revue internationale de philosophie published in 2011, while in January 2020, an issue of the very prestigious Cahiers de l’Herne deals with his philosophical work.

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Positions currently held

• Member of the National Consultative Ethics Committee from 2008 to 2016
• General Director of the Diderot Institute since February 2021.
• Speaker for numerous associations (Association Progrès du Management, CJD, CGPME…) and companies (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 limited liability company to manage his conferences, whose name uses his initials: l’Art de Conférer Sarl (The Art of Lecturing LLC).
• Author of successful philosophical works, André Comte-Sponville made a name for himself in the philosophical world with his first book: Treatise on Despair and Beatitude, which is in its thirteenth edition.
• Participating in many symposia and university publications, he notably directed three issues of the Revue internationale de philosophie, dedicated respectively to Montaigne (no. 181, 1992), Pascal (no. 199, 1997), and Alain (no. 215, 2001).
• André Comte-Sponville writes regularly in the general public 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…).
• Columnist for Challenges magazine, where he writes every week.

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André Comte-Sponville’s Conference Themes

• Philosophy and Medicine
• Is capitalism moral?
• Meaning of work, happiness and motivation
• Philosophy of management
• Globalization and civilizations: what value for the 21st century?
• Love

Books

His easiest books

• Love and solitude and Presentations of Philosophy (Albin Michel editions)
• Happiness, desperately (Ed. Pleins Feux)
• Impromptus (PUF, 1996)
• Human Life (Hermann, 2005)

His most famous book

A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues, published in January 1995, by PUF (La Bruyère Prize from the French Academy, 300,000 copies sold in France, translated into 24 languages).

His latest works

• Philosophical Dictionary (PUF, 2001, re-ed. augmented 2021)
• Is capitalism moral? (Albin Michel, 2004, re-ed. 2009 with a new postface)
• Philosophy (PUF, coll. "Que sais-je?", 2005)
• The Spirit of Atheism (Introduction to a spirituality without God), Albin Michel, 2006
• Honey and Wormwood (Poetry and Philosophy in Lucretius), Hermann, 2008
• On the Body, PUF, 2009
• The Taste for Life and a Hundred Other Remarks, Albin Michel, 2010
• Neither Sex nor Death (Three Essays on Love and Sexuality), Albin Michel, 2012
• From the Tragic to Materialism, and Back (Twenty-six Studies on Montaigne, Pascal, Spinoza, Nietzsche and a Few Others), PUF, 2015
• The Pleasure of Thinking (An Introduction to Philosophy), Vuibert, 2015
• Life is a Tender Thing (Conversations with François L’Yvonnet), Albin Michel, September 2015
• The Inconsolable and Other Impromptus, PUF, 2018
• Against Fear and a Hundred Other Remarks, Albin Michel, 2019
• Amorous Dictionary of Montaigne, Plon, 2020
• May the best win!, Robert Laffont, 2021