Rome, 30 May (LaPresse) – The French sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin has died at the age of 104. His widow confirmed the news to *Le Monde*. Edgar Morin, whose real name was Edgar Nahoum, was born in Paris on 8 July 1921 to Greek parents. An anti-fascist during the Spanish Civil War, he later joined the Communist Party and the Resistance during the occupation, a period in which he adopted the pseudonym ‘Morin’. He distanced himself from the Communist Party in 1951 as a fierce critic of Stalinist totalitarianism and was definitively expelled from the party that same year. An experience he recounted in his 1959 autobiography, ‘Autocritica’. Morin is considered the father of ‘complex thought’ through his search for a method capable of addressing the challenge of complexity posed by knowledge and human, social and political problems.
France: sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin has died at the age of 104
Rome, 30 May (LaPresse) – The French sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin has died at the age of 104. His widow confirmed the news to *Le Monde*. Edgar Morin, whose real name was Edgar Nahoum, was born in Paris on 8 July 1921 to Greek parents. An anti-fascist during the Spanish Civil War, he later joined the Communist Party and the Resistance during the occupation, a period in which he adopted the pseudonym ‘Morin’. He distanced himself from the Communist Party in 1951 as a fierce critic of Stalinist totalitarianism and was definitively expelled from the party that same year. An experience he recounted in his 1959 autobiography, ‘Autocritica’. Morin is considered the father of ‘complex thought’ through his search for a method capable of addressing the challenge of complexity posed by knowledge and human, social and political problems.
