Edgar Morin (; ; born Edgar Nahoum; 8 July 1921) is a French philosopher and sociologist of the theory of information who has been recognized for his work on

complexity Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interaction, interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence. The term is generall ...

and "complex thought" ( pensée complexe), and for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as

media studies Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...

, politics, sociology,

visual anthropology Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media. More recently it has been used by historians of science an ...

ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

, education, and

systems biology Systems biology is the computational modeling, computational and mathematical analysis and modeling of complex biological systems. It is a biology-based interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on complex interactions within biological syst ...

. As he explains: He holds two bachelors: one in history and geography and one in law. He never did a Ph.D. Though less well known in the anglophone world 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. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the

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(EHESS) in

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Biography

At the beginning of the 20th century, Morin's family migrated from the Ottoman city of

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(Thessaloniki) to

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and later to Paris, where Edgar was born. He is of Judeo-Spanish (

Sefardi Sephardic (or Sephardi) Jews (, ; lad, Djudíos Sefardíes), also ''Sepharadim'' , Modern Hebrew: ''Sfaradim'', Tiberian: Səp̄āraddîm, also , ''Ye'hude Sepharad'', lit. "The Jews of Spain", es, Judíos sefardíes (or ), pt, Judeus sefa ...

) origin. When the Germans invaded France in 1940, Morin assisted refugees and joined the French Resistance. As a member of the

French Resistance The French Resistance (french: La Résistance) was a collection of organisations that fought the German occupation of France during World War II, Nazi occupation of France and the Collaborationism, collaborationist Vichy France, Vichy régim ...

he adopted the pseudonym ''Morin'', which he continues to use. He joined the

French Communist Party The French Communist Party (french: Parti communiste français, ''PCF'' ; ) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. The PCF is a member of the Party of the European Left, and its MEPs sit in the European Unit ...

in 1941. In 1945, Morin married Violette Chapellaubeau and they lived in

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, 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 '' L'Observateur politique, économique et littéraire''. In the same year, he was admitted to the National Center of Scientific Research (

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). Morin founded and directed the magazine ' (1954–1962). In 1959 his book ''Autocritique'' was published. The book was a sustained reflection on his adherence to, and subsequent exit from, the Communist Party, focusing on the dangers of ideology and self-deception. 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'', a work on popular culture''.'' That same year, French sociologist

Georges Friedmann Georges Philippe Friedmann (; 13 May 1902 – 15 November 1977), was a French sociologist and philosopher, known for his influential work on the effects of industrial labor on individuals and his criticisms of the uncontrolled embrace of techn ...

brought him and

Roland Barthes Roland Gérard Barthes (; ; 12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular ...

together to create a Centre for the Study of Mass Communication that, after several name changes, became the Edgar Morin Centre of the

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, Paris. Also in 1960 Morin and

Jean Rouch Jean Rouch (; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was characterized b ...

coauthored the film

Chronique d'un été ''Chronicle of a Summer'' (French original title: ''Chronique d'un été'') is a 1961 French documentary film shot during the summer of 1960 by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch, with the technical and aesthetic ...

, an early example of ''

cinéma vérité Cinéma vérité (, , ; "truthful cinema") is a style of documentary filmmaking developed by Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch, inspired by Dziga Vertov's theory about Kino-Pravda. It combines improvisation with use of the camera to unveil truth or high ...

'' and direct cinema. 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 the incumbent professor of philosophy,

Henri Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre ( , ; 16 June 1901 – 29 June 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, for introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of so ...

, at the

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. 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 ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

'' 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 coauthoring ''Mai 68: La brèche'' with

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and

Claude Lefort Claude Lefort (; ; 21 April 1924 – 3 October 2010) was a French philosopher and activist. He was politically active by 1942 under the influence of his tutor, the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (whose posthumous publications Lefort late ...

. In 1969, Morin spent a year at the

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, California.

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invited him under the recommendation of

Jacques Monod Jacques Lucien Monod (February 9, 1910 – May 31, 1976) was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of e ...

and John Hunt, with the sole imposed condition of learning. It was there, in this "breeding ground for Nobel Prizes" that he familiarized himself with systems theory. He read

Henri Laborit Henri Laborit (21 November 1914 – 18 May 1995) was a French surgeon, neurobiologist, writer and philosopher. In 1952, Laborit was instrumental in the development of the drug chlorpromazine, published his findings, and convinced three psychiatri ...

James Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and ...

, Stéphane Lupasco,

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, and was introduced to the thought of

Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include '' Steps to an ...

and the "new problematic in ecology". In 1983 he published ''De la nature de l’URSS,'' which deepened his analysis of Soviet communism and anticipated the

perestroika ''Perestroika'' (; russian: links=no, перестройка, p=pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə, a=ru-perestroika.ogg) was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s widely associated wit ...

Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...

. In 2002 Morin participated in the creation of the International Ethical, Scientific and Political Collegium. Also that year, he made a trip to Iran with

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. Following a meeting at a music festival in

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, in 2009, Morin became close with sociology professor Sabah Abouessalam. The couple married in 2012. He collaborated with her on the text, ''L'homme est faible devant la femme'' (Presses de la Renaissance, 2013), and in 2020 on ''Changeons de voie - Les leçons du coronavirus'' (Denoël, 2020).

Philosophical work

In addition to being the

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Chair of Complex Thought, Morin is known as a founder of

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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 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 The University of Messina ( it, Università degli Studi di Messina; Latin: ''Studiorum Universitas Messanae''), known colloquially as UniME, is a state university located in Messina, Sicily, Italy. Founded in 1548 by Pope Paul III, it was the world ...

in Sicily, Ricardo Palma University in Lima, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the French National Research Center in Paris, have established research centers based on his transdisciplinary methods and philosophy. In addition, the Multiversidad Mundo Real Edgar Morin, a university based on his work, was established in Mexico. Morin did not embrace the French postmodern or

poststructuralist Post-structuralism is a term for philosophical and literary forms of theory that both build upon and reject ideas established by structuralism, the intellectual project that preceded it. Though post-structuralists all present different critique ...

movements, instead pursuing his own research agenda. As a result, US academics did not transport his theories into disciplinary discourses in same fashion as they did Foucault's, Derrida's and Galinon-Mélénec's. Morin's work spans scholarly and popular literature, and he has appeared on the cover of multiple publications includin
Sciences Humaines
and a special issue o

According to Alfonso Montuori in "Edgar Morin: A partial introduction"

"The 6 volume Method is perhaps Morin’s culminating work, a remarkable and seemingly inexhaustible treasure trove of insights, reflection, and a real manual for those who are interested in broadening the nature of human inquiry. Drawing on
cybernetics Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causality, such as feedback, in regulatory and purposive systems. Cybernetics is named after an example of circular causal feedback, that of steering a ship, where the helmsperson m ...
,
information theory Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification (science), quantification, computer data storage, storage, and telecommunication, communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist a ...
,
systems theory Systems theory is the interdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or human-made. Every system has causal boundaries, is influenced by its context, defined by its structu ...
, but also integrating all the work he has done before, from the work on imagination in his research on movies to his profound reflections on death, Method integrates Morin’s journey and provides the reader with an alternative to the traditional assumptions and method of inquiry of our time."

Morin was elevated to the dignity of

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of the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

, in the Honours List of

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2021 by French President Macron.

Works (selection)

Books

* 1946 : ''L'An zéro de l'Allemagne'', Paris, Éditions de la Cité Universelle. * 1947 : ''Allemagne notre souci'', Paris, Éditions Hier et Aujourd'hui. * 1948 : ''Une cornerie'', Paris, Éditions Nagel. * 1948 : ''L'Homme et la Mort'', Paris, Éditions Corrêa. * 1956 : ''Le Cinéma ou l'homme imaginaire'', Paris, Éditions de Minuit. * 1957 : ''Les Stars'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1959 : ''Autocritique'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1962 : ''L'esprit du temps. Essai sur la culture de masse'', Paris, Grasset-Fasquelle. * 1967 : ''Commune en France. La métamorphose de Plodémet'', Paris, Fayard. * 1968 : ''Mai 68, La Brèche'', Paris, Fayard. * 1969 : ''La Rumeur d'Orléans'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1969 : ''Introduction à une politique de l'homme'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1969 : ''Le vif du sujet'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1970 : ''Journal de Californie'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1973 : ''Le Paradigme perdu : la nature humaine'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1974 : ''L'unité de l'homme'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1977 : ''La Méthode'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1981 : ''Pour sortir du XXe siècle'', Paris, Nathan. * 1982 : ''Science avec conscience'', Paris, Fayard. * 1983 : ''De la nature de l’URSS'', Paris, Fayard. * 1984 : ''Le Rose et le noir'', Paris, Galilée. * 1984 : ''Sociologie'', Paris, Fayard. * 1987 : ''Penser l'Europe'', Paris, Gallimard. * 1988 : ''Mais...'', Paris, Édition Neo/Soco Invest. * 1989 : ''Vidal et les siens'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1990 : ''Introduction à la pensée complexe'', Paris, ESF. * 1993 : ''Terre-Patrie'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1994 : ''Mes démons'', Paris, Stock. * 1995 : ''Les Fratricides : Yougoslavie-Bosnie (1991-1995)'', Paris, Édition Arléa. * 1995 : ''Une année sisyphe'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1997 : ''Comprendre la complexité dans les organisations de soins'', Paris, ASPEPS. * 1997 : ''Une politique de civilisation'', Paris, Arléa, Paris. * 1997 : ''Amour, Poésie, Sagesse'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1999 : ''L'Intelligence de la complexité'', Paris, L'Harmattan. * 1999 : ''Relier les connaissances'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 1999 : ''Une tête bien faite : Repenser la réforme, réformer la pensée'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 2000 : ''Les Sept Savoirs nécessaires à l'éducation du futur'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 2000 : ''Dialogue sur la nature humaine'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2001 : ''Journal de Plozévet'', Bretagne, 1965, Paris, L'Aube. * 2002 : ''Dialogue sur la connaissance. Entretiens avec des lycéens'', Paris, La Tour d’Aigues. * 2002 : ''Pour une politique de civilisation'', Paris, Arléa. * 2003 : ''La Violence du monde'', Paris, Édition du Félin. * 2003 : ''Éduquer pour l’ère planétaire, la pensée complexe comme méthode d’apprentissage dans l’erreur et l’incertitude humaine'', Paris, Balland. * 2003 : ''Université, quel avenir ?'', Paris, Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer. * 2003 : ''Les Enfants du ciel : entre vide, lumière, matière'', Paris, Odile Jacob. * 2004 : ''Pour entrer dans le XXIe siècle'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 2005 : ''Culture et Barbarie européennes'', Paris, Bayard. * 2006 : ''Itinérance'', Paris, Arléa. * 2006 : ''Le Monde moderne et la question juive'', Paris, Le Seuil. * 2007 : ''L'An I de l'ère écologique'', Paris, Tallandier. * 2007 : ''Où va le monde ?'', Paris, L'Herne. * 2007 : ''Vers l'abîme'', Paris, L'Herne. * 2008 : ''Mon chemin'', Paris, Fayard. * 2008 : ''Vive la politique ?'', Grenoble, Forum Libération de Grenoble. * 2009 : ''Crises'', Paris, CNRS. * 2009 : ''La Pensée tourbillonnaire'', Paris, Éditions Germina. * 2009 : ''Edwige, l'inséparable'', Paris, Fayard. * 2010 : ''Pour et contre Marx'', Paris, Temps présent. * 2010 : ''Ma gauche'', Paris, Éditions François Bourin. * 2010 : ''Comment vivre en temps de crise ?'', Paris, Bayard. * 2011 : ''La Voie : pour l'avenir de l'humanité'', Paris, Fayard. * 2011 : ''Conversation pour l'avenir'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2011 : ''Dialogue sur la connaissance : Entretiens avec des lycéens'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2011 : ''Mes philosophes'', Paris, Germina. * 2011 : ''Le Chemin de l'espérance'', Paris, Fayard. * 2012 : ''La France est une et multiculturelle. Lettre aux citoyens de France'', Paris, Fayard. * 2013 : ''Mon Paris'', ma mémoire, Paris, Fayard. * 2013 : ''La rencontre improbable et nécessaire'' (with Sabah Abouessalam), Paris, Presses De La Renaissance. * 2014 : ''Notre Europe : Décomposition ou métamorphose'', Paris, Fayard. * 2014 : ''Au péril des idées'', Paris, Presses du Châtelet. * 2014 : ''Enseigner à vivre. Manifeste pour changer l’éducation'', Paris, Actes Sud-Play Bac Éditions. * 2015 : ''Avant, pendant, après le 11 janvier'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2015 : ''Impliquons-nous ! Dialogue pour le siècle'', Paris, Actes Sud. * 2015 : ''Penser global : L'humain et son univers'', Paris, Robert Laffont. * 2016 : ''Pour l'esthétique'', Paris, Robert Laffont. * 2016 : ''Pour une crisologie'', Paris, L'Herne. * 2016 : ''Ecologiser l'Homme'', Paris, Lemieux Éditeur. * 2017 : ''Connaissance, Ignorance, Mystère'', Paris, Fayard. * 2017 : ''L’Île de Luna'', Paris, Actes sud. * 2017 : ''L'Urgence et l'Essentiel'', Paris, Éditions Don Quichotte. * 2017 : ''Le temps est venu de changer de civilisation'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2017 : ''Où est passé le peuple de gauche ?'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2018 : ''Pour résister à la régression'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2018 : ''Le Cinéma : Un art de la complexité'', Paris, Nouveau Monde Éditions. * 2019 : ''La Fraternité, pourquoi ?'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2019 : ''Chronique d'un été'', Paris, L'Aube. * 2019 : ''Les souvenirs viennent à ma rencontre'', Paris, Fayard. * 2020 : ''Quelle école voulons-nous ? La Passion du savoir'' (with

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), Paris, Éditions Odile Jacob. * 2020 : ''Sur la crise : Pour une crisologie suivi de Où va le monde ?'', Paris, Éditions Flammarion, coll. Champs. * 2020 : ''Changeons de voie : Les leçons du coronavirus'' (in collaboration with Sabah Abouessalam), Paris, Éditions Denoël. * 2020 : ''L'entrée dans l'ère écolgique'', Paris, L'Aube. *2021 : ''Frères d’âme, entretien avec Pierre Rabhi'' under questions of Denis Lafay. Paris, L’Aube. *2021 : ''Leçons d’un siècle de vie'', Paris, Édfitions Denoël, ISBN 978-22-07163-07-8. *2022 : ''Réveillons-nous !'', Paris, Éditions Denoël, ISBN 978-22-07165-25-6.

Articles

* "The Noise and the Message"
''Telos''
33 (Fall 1977). New York: Telos Press.

Conferences

* 2005, "Restricted complexity, general complexity".

Honours

References

External links

Edgar Morin writings and interview in the UNESCO Courier

Interview with Edgar Morin
a
The Global University Network for Innovation
(GUNI)
WISE 2013 Special Address
a lecture in English at the

World Innovation Summit for Education The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is an international initiative aimed at transforming education through innovation. WISE was established by Qatar Foundation in 2009 under the patronage of its chairperson, Sheikha Mozah bint Nass ...

The Persecution of Edgar Morin
by Doug Ireland
"La réalité semi-imaginaire de l'homme"
, last chapter of the book "Cinéma ou l'homme imaginaire" (1956)
Edgar Morin: Seven Complex Lessons in Education
video with English subtitltes
'In Praise of Complex Thought' CNRS News Edgar Morin Interview with Francis Lecompte July 2019
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