Goodbye to Edgar Morin, the giant of complex thought who died at the age of 104
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At the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, relatives and politicians gathered for the national tribute to the resistant, sociologist and philosopher, who died on 29 May, at the age of 104.
(1921-2026)With the departure of Edgar Morin (Paris, 29 May 2026) one of the great humanist intelligences of the 20th and 21st centuries disappears. His death does not mark the end of a work, but the beginning of a new responsibility for those who continue to seek to understand a world traversed by unprecedented uncertainties, inequalities and ecological threats. His thought was born as a profu...Continue reading...
Goodbye to Edgar Morin, the giant of complex thought who died at the age of 104
The French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist Edgar Morin, initiator of “complex thinking”, famous for the transdisciplinary approach with which he treated a wide range of topics, including epistemology, died on the eve of his 105th birthday in Paris. The illustrious intellectual, one of the last giants of contemporary culture, was president of the Association for […]
He was one of those who refused the boundaries established between knowledge, disciplines and beings. Edgar Morin left us a work that looked less like a system than a constellation: a permanent invitation to connect what seemed separate, to welcome uncertainty without giving up understanding, to think about the complexity of the world, to read more of the article A "Goodbye", and therefore not a "Goodbye", to Edgar Morin in UP' Magazine.
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