LF: "Things"? It is a title that intrigues that feeds misunderstanding. Rather than a book about things, basically do you not write a book on happiness? G. P: It is there, I think, between the things of the modern world and happiness, one of obligation. A certain richness of our civilization makes a kind of happiness possible: we can speak, in this sense, as a happiness, deep carpets, from a current figure of happiness which I believe that to be happy, he must be absolutely modern. Those who imagined that I condemned the consumer society really do not understand my book. But this happiness is still possible; because, our capitalist society is: things promised are not things due. --