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I miei filosofi
Edgar Morin livre quelques leçons sur des philosophes qui l'ont marqué. Penseurs de la complexité, de la contradiction, de l'ambivalence, comme Héraclite, Montaigne, Pascal, Hegel. Penseurs universalistes et humanistes incarnant l'esprit « judéo-gentil » (la synthèse conflictuelle et féconde de la singularité juive et de l'universalisme des Lumières), tels Spinoza. Penseurs messianiques, tels le jeune Marx. Penseurs de la technique comme Heidegger. Penseurs ayant su exprimer magnifiquement la dialectique de la souffrance et de la joie, tels... Beethoven (en qui Edgar Morin voit un philosophe). Ces leçons sont complétées de quelques réflexions sur la nature même de la philosophie, sur sa place dans l'enseignement, sur son rôle dans la « réforme de pensée » prônée par Edgar Morin.
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First published January 1, 2013
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Edgar Morin
422 books374 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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October 8, 2017
I wrote it before (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...) : Edgar Morin is one of those typical French "monstres sacrés", a man with an enormous erudition and culture that has a say about almost everything. In this book he traces the roots of his thinking, and he also illustrates the many interesting side paths that he has walked on to constitute his personal vision. Especially his interpretation of Heraclitus, Montaigne, Rousseau and Dostoevsky are captivating. On Hegel and Marx he gives a little too much place to an apology of his own aberrations (Morin is clearly a child of his time). But it is especially his continuing emphasis on a new kind of thinking that attracts me in him: a thinking that accepts contradictions as a feature of reality, a thinking that states that chaos is an essential element of being, and a thinking that also leaves room for mystery, a dimension that will always transcend us. This sounds somewhat flou, I know, but it resonates with how I look at the world. It is time that I put my teeth in the actual work of Morin.
September 20, 2021
3.5 ⭐️
À lire, à relire et à rerelire.
À lire, à relire et à rerelire.
February 16, 2025
I temi principali del libro sono:
La complessità del reale: Morin sottolinea come la realtà sia complessa e multidimensionale, e come sia necessario un approccio transdisciplinare per comprenderla appieno.
L'importanza del pensiero critico: Morin invita i lettori a sviluppare un pensiero critico e autonomo, per non essere vittime di dogmi e ideologie.
La necessità di un dialogo tra le diverse discipline: Morin promuove un dialogo aperto e costruttivo tra le diverse discipline del sapere, per superare le divisioni e costruire una conoscenza più completa e integrata.
Il ruolo della filosofia nella società contemporanea: Morin sottolinea come la filosofia possa offrire un contributo fondamentale per affrontare le sfide del nostro tempo, come la crisi ambientale, le disuguaglianze sociali e la perdita di senso
"I miei filosofi" è un libro importante e stimolante, che offre una riflessione profonda e originale sulla filosofia e sul suo ruolo nella società contemporanea. Il libro è adatto a tutti i lettori, anche a coloro che non hanno una conoscenza specifica della filosofia, e può essere un'ottima introduzione al pensiero di Edgar Morin.
La complessità del reale: Morin sottolinea come la realtà sia complessa e multidimensionale, e come sia necessario un approccio transdisciplinare per comprenderla appieno.
L'importanza del pensiero critico: Morin invita i lettori a sviluppare un pensiero critico e autonomo, per non essere vittime di dogmi e ideologie.
La necessità di un dialogo tra le diverse discipline: Morin promuove un dialogo aperto e costruttivo tra le diverse discipline del sapere, per superare le divisioni e costruire una conoscenza più completa e integrata.
Il ruolo della filosofia nella società contemporanea: Morin sottolinea come la filosofia possa offrire un contributo fondamentale per affrontare le sfide del nostro tempo, come la crisi ambientale, le disuguaglianze sociali e la perdita di senso
"I miei filosofi" è un libro importante e stimolante, che offre una riflessione profonda e originale sulla filosofia e sul suo ruolo nella società contemporanea. Il libro è adatto a tutti i lettori, anche a coloro che non hanno una conoscenza specifica della filosofia, e può essere un'ottima introduzione al pensiero di Edgar Morin.
April 23, 2024
J’ai trouvé ce livre très intéressant et assez simple à lire bien que je n’ai pas compris certains (sous-)chapitres à cause de ma très faible connaissance en philosophie. Le chapitre sur les psychanalystes m’a laissé très sceptique mais le reste m’a aidé à nourrir un commencement de réflexion philosophique.
February 16, 2025
Un buon testo comprensibile e allo stesso tempo profondo. Con molti rimandi ad altri suoi scritti, l'autore ci invita ad approfondire, se ne abbiamo il coraggio.
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August 17, 2017um passeio pelas referências filosóficas do autor (entendendo filosofia no seu sentido de reflexão filosófica, não necessariamente por filósofos), tem um quê de enciclopédia que é bem agradável de ler, sobretudo pela referência inusitada de alguns autores.
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