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Terra-Patria
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194 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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Edgar Morin
426 books375 followersEdgar Morin (born Edgar Nahoum) is a French philosopher and sociologist who has been internationally recognized for his work on complexity and "complex thought," and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology, ecology, education, and systems biology. He holds degrees in history, economics, and law. Though less well known in the United States due to the limited availability of English translations of his over 60 books, Morin is renowned in the French-speaking world, Europe, and Latin America.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Morin's family migrated from the Greek town of Salonica to Marseille and later to Paris, where Edgar was born. He first became tied to socialism in connection with the Popular Front and the Spanish Republican Government during the Spanish Civil War.
When the Germans invaded France in 1940, Edgar fled to Toulouse, where he assisted refugees and committed himself to Marxist socialism. As a member of the French Resistance he adopted the pseudonym Morin, which he would use for the rest of his life. He joined the French Communist Party in 1941. In 1945, Morin married Violette Chapellaubeau and they lived in Landau, where he served as a Lieutenant in the French Occupation army in Germany.
In 1946, he returned to Paris and gave up his military career to pursue his activities with the Communist party. Due to his critical posture, his relationship with the party gradually deteriorated until he was expelled in 1951 after he published an article in Le Nouvel Observateur. In the same year, he was admitted to the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS).
Morin founded and directed the magazine Arguments (1954–1962). In 1959 his book Autocritique was published.
In 1960, Morin travelled extensively in Latin America, visiting Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico.He returned to France where he published L'Esprit du Temps.
That same year, French sociologist Georges Friedmann brought him and Roland Barthes together to create a Centre for the Study of Mass Communication that, after several name-changes, became the Edgar Morin Centre of the EHESS, Paris.
Beginning in 1965, Morin became involved in a large multidisciplinary project, financed by the Délégation Générale à la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique in Plozévet.
In 1968, Morin replaced Henri Lefebvre at the University of Nanterre. He became involved in the student revolts that began to emerge in France. In May 1968, he wrote a series of articles for Le Monde that tried to understand what he called "The Student Commune." He followed the student revolt closely and wrote a second series of articles in Le Monde called "The Revolution without a Face," as well as co-authoring Mai 68: La brèche with Cornelius Castoriadis and Claude Lefort.
In 1969, Morin spent a year at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
In 1983, he published De la nature de l’URSS, which deepened his analysis of Soviet communism and anticipated the Perestroika of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Morin was married to Johanne Harrelle, with whom he lived for 15 years.
In 2002, Morin participated in the creation of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium.
In addition to being the UNESCO Chair of Complex Thought, Morin is known as a founder of transdisciplinarity and holds honorary doctorates in a variety of social science fields from 21 universities (Messina, Geneva, Milan, Bergamo, Thessaloniki, La Paz, Odense, Perugia, Cosenza, Palermo, Nuevo León, Université de Laval à Québec, Brussels, Barcelona, Guadalajara, Valencia, Vera Cruz, Santiago, the Catholic University of Porto Alegre, the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, and Candido Mendes University Rio de Janeiro.
The University of Messina in Sicily, Ricardo Palma University in Lima, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the French National Research Center in
At the beginning of the 20th century, Morin's family migrated from the Greek town of Salonica to Marseille and later to Paris, where Edgar was born. He first became tied to socialism in connection with the Popular Front and the Spanish Republican Government during the Spanish Civil War.
When the Germans invaded France in 1940, Edgar fled to Toulouse, where he assisted refugees and committed himself to Marxist socialism. As a member of the French Resistance he adopted the pseudonym Morin, which he would use for the rest of his life. He joined the French Communist Party in 1941. In 1945, Morin married Violette Chapellaubeau and they lived in Landau, where he served as a Lieutenant in the French Occupation army in Germany.
In 1946, he returned to Paris and gave up his military career to pursue his activities with the Communist party. Due to his critical posture, his relationship with the party gradually deteriorated until he was expelled in 1951 after he published an article in Le Nouvel Observateur. In the same year, he was admitted to the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS).
Morin founded and directed the magazine Arguments (1954–1962). In 1959 his book Autocritique was published.
In 1960, Morin travelled extensively in Latin America, visiting Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico.He returned to France where he published L'Esprit du Temps.
That same year, French sociologist Georges Friedmann brought him and Roland Barthes together to create a Centre for the Study of Mass Communication that, after several name-changes, became the Edgar Morin Centre of the EHESS, Paris.
Beginning in 1965, Morin became involved in a large multidisciplinary project, financed by the Délégation Générale à la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique in Plozévet.
In 1968, Morin replaced Henri Lefebvre at the University of Nanterre. He became involved in the student revolts that began to emerge in France. In May 1968, he wrote a series of articles for Le Monde that tried to understand what he called "The Student Commune." He followed the student revolt closely and wrote a second series of articles in Le Monde called "The Revolution without a Face," as well as co-authoring Mai 68: La brèche with Cornelius Castoriadis and Claude Lefort.
In 1969, Morin spent a year at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
In 1983, he published De la nature de l’URSS, which deepened his analysis of Soviet communism and anticipated the Perestroika of Mikhail Gorbachev.
Morin was married to Johanne Harrelle, with whom he lived for 15 years.
In 2002, Morin participated in the creation of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium.
In addition to being the UNESCO Chair of Complex Thought, Morin is known as a founder of transdisciplinarity and holds honorary doctorates in a variety of social science fields from 21 universities (Messina, Geneva, Milan, Bergamo, Thessaloniki, La Paz, Odense, Perugia, Cosenza, Palermo, Nuevo León, Université de Laval à Québec, Brussels, Barcelona, Guadalajara, Valencia, Vera Cruz, Santiago, the Catholic University of Porto Alegre, the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, and Candido Mendes University Rio de Janeiro.
The University of Messina in Sicily, Ricardo Palma University in Lima, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the French National Research Center in
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March 22, 2021Phần đầu tóm lược về các sự kiện nổi bật của thế giới, hơi khó đọc vì liên tiếp các mốc thời gian, địa danh, hình thức tổ chức chính quyền... Tiếp đó là bản thể hiện của máy scan sau khi quét một lượt mọi khía cạnh trong cuộc sống nhân loại, các vấn đề khoa học kỹ thuật, tôn giáo, triết học, văn hóa, chính trị với các từ mang sắc thái tiêu cực: hấp hối, man rợ, tiêu diệt, bất hạnh, bóc lột, què quặt... chi chít luôn. Mãi tới chương cuối thì mới thấy ánh sáng.
Nhân loại chúng ta đều là con dân, là anh em của đất mẹ, là những kẻ mang số phận lang thang trên một hành tinh không ngừng phiêu dạt giữa thiên hà, những con vi trùng trong vũ trụ mênh mông, hãy đoàn kết lại để cùng cải tạo những hư hỏng do chính mình gây nên.
Ý thức và tình yêu là những đột biến sau cùng thoát ra từ các kết cấu vật chất. Thể hiện một sự hiểu biết sâu rộng và thấm đượm một tâm hồn yêu thương tha thiết quả đất quê hương này, xứng đáng làm giáo trình trong các trường phổ thông.
"Con người có thể hủy diệt những con virut nhưng vẫn bó tay trước những con virut mới đang thách thức, đang biến dạng, đang đổi mới... Ngay cả đối với vấn đề thuộc về vi khuẩn và virut, nó phải và sẽ còn phải tiến hành đàm phán với sự sống và với thiên nhiên." Hy vọng đây là một chỉ dẫn cho chúng ta, những anh em, trong mọi cuộc chiến.
Bản dịch chưa mượt lắm, đôi chỗ cứ thấy gồ ghề với ngang ngang, dùng những từ cũng lạ.
Nhân loại chúng ta đều là con dân, là anh em của đất mẹ, là những kẻ mang số phận lang thang trên một hành tinh không ngừng phiêu dạt giữa thiên hà, những con vi trùng trong vũ trụ mênh mông, hãy đoàn kết lại để cùng cải tạo những hư hỏng do chính mình gây nên.
Ý thức và tình yêu là những đột biến sau cùng thoát ra từ các kết cấu vật chất. Thể hiện một sự hiểu biết sâu rộng và thấm đượm một tâm hồn yêu thương tha thiết quả đất quê hương này, xứng đáng làm giáo trình trong các trường phổ thông.
"Con người có thể hủy diệt những con virut nhưng vẫn bó tay trước những con virut mới đang thách thức, đang biến dạng, đang đổi mới... Ngay cả đối với vấn đề thuộc về vi khuẩn và virut, nó phải và sẽ còn phải tiến hành đàm phán với sự sống và với thiên nhiên." Hy vọng đây là một chỉ dẫn cho chúng ta, những anh em, trong mọi cuộc chiến.
Bản dịch chưa mượt lắm, đôi chỗ cứ thấy gồ ghề với ngang ngang, dùng những từ cũng lạ.
July 19, 2023
This book is a thoughtful diagnostic of the social and inner problems our society face ( solitude, environmental crisis, haste, economic inequality…). Sad thing this was first written in the early 90s. Still resonates. There is a chapter dedicated to encouraging better thinking, which as an educator I think is pretty inspiring.
August 9, 2020
The sad ramblings of a bureaucrat that feels something is wrong, but he can't possibly grasp the science. And the solution is easy, like the Islamist bomber, Morin gets his prayer mat and starts imploring his gods: Government and Society.
July 3, 2016
What a gorgeous, complex, little book! Compassionate, humane and very subtle.
December 29, 2025
Not at all what I'd hoped which was a robust complexity theory philosophy to combat philosophic anarchism. Really starts out with a good definition of the existential problems we have but doesn't answer them with a compelling complexity theory answer. Also doesn't brush back collectivism. ChatGPT's recommendation engine got this one wrong.
September 19, 2024
O cara quaaaaase fala sobre um culto. É tipo aquele israelita mas com menos hype.
October 4, 2024
tuve la posibilidad de leer este libro después de tener los primeros conocimientos sobre la complejidad y ciertamente me ayudó bastante a comprender esta teoría multidisciplinaria. el autor engloba las dimensiones múltiples del ser humano y de su entorno en una sola teoría para tener un mayor panorama al momento de estudiar el tema de interés. considero que esta teoría es fundamental para la resolución de crisis del pasado que han venido a afectar el presente, porque los gobiernos tienden a ofrecer soluciones temporales que le permitan a la población olvidarse por un momento de las problemáticas actuales en lugar de buscar soluciones contundentes haciendo uso de la experiencia con el manejo (incorrecto) de crisis anteriores para evitar que suceda lo mismo. muchas personas comentan que el autor no le encuentra pies ni cabeza a los conflictos del ser humano en sociedad y tiene sentido lo que opinan, pero también es importante considerar que el estudio de problemáticas y su solución no es sencillo, sino que es un proceso complejo que requiere inversión en tiempo y dinero para lograr un cambio real. para esto se deben considerar las crisis pasadas, las actuales y las futuras y en base a ello buscar la mejor solución, por lo que sería imposible encontrarle un inicio o un final a eso. como explica el autor, la causa es el resultado y todo regresa a su origen, deben considerarse todas las posibilidades dejando espacio para la incertidumbre y el cambio.
April 9, 2007
Many system thinkers were involved in writing books about ecology and politics. Morin's skill is to help everyone understand very chaotic dynamics. His toolkit is simular to other Cybernetic thinkers of his time, much of it is cybernetic loops, feedback, and the focus on processes and not on form.
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