Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin, Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), was born in 1921 in Paris to parents from the Jewish Mediterranean diaspora who had lived for many years in Thessaloniki. Just before World War II, he joined the Communist Party and actively participated in the Resistance. Later, in 1951, he was expelled from the French Communist Party and became a sharp and insightful critic of Stalinist totalitarianism. Since then, he dedicated himself to his scientific and literary work, remaining politically autonomous within the radical left, consistently maintaining a critical stance towards the "major events" of the second half of the 20th century. In 1957, he co-founded the magazine "Arguments" with Kostas Axelos and others. The following works by Edgar Morin have been published in Greek: "The Stars" (Pairidis, n.d.), "Leaving the Twentieth Century" (Roes, 1987), "To Think Europe" (Exantas, 1991), "Earth-Homeland" (Odysseas, 1993), "Love-Poetry-Wisdom" (Editions of the Twenty-First, 1997), "A Politics of Civilization" (New Borders, 1998), "Sociology" (Editions of the Twenty-First, 1998), "My Demons" (Editions of the Twenty-First, 1999), "The Well-Made Head" (Editions of the Twenty-First, 2000), "Human Nature: The Lost Paradigm" (Alternative Editions, 2000), "The Method: 3. The Knowledge of Knowledge" (Editions of the Twenty-First, 2001). Other works include: "L'homme et la mort" (1951), "Autocritique" (1959), "L'esprit du temps" (1962-1976), "Le vif du sujet" (1969), "La méthode" in 5 volumes (1977-1991), etc.