Short biography
Philosopher and sociologist. Doctor of the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).
Writer. Author of around fifty works (essays, novels, stories, encyclopedias), translated into around twenty languages and selling ten million copies worldwide, he also writes for the theater, television (documentaries) and comics.
In 2016, he co-founded the SEVE Foundation and association , Savoir Être et Vivre Ensemble (under the aegis of the Fondation de France) and in 2017, he created the association Ensemble pour les Animaux .
In November 2024, he founded La Maison des sagesses in order to spread philosophical knowledge in the sense of an art of living, as the Greeks understood it.
He divides his time between his main residence in Haute-Savoie, Corsica, Paris and the rest of the world where he gives numerous seminars and conferences.