Thus, we find ourselves in a vicious cycle of increasingly multidimensional problems, and an increasing incapacity to think multidimensionally; the crisis worsens as fast as the incapacity to reflect on the crisis increases; the more planetary our problems, the more they are left unthought. Blind intelligence, unable to envisage the planetary context, makes us unaware, unconcerned and irresponsible.
Edgar Morin: Background
At the beginning of the 20th century, Morin's family migrated from the Ottoman city of Salonica to Marseille[18] and later to Paris, where Edgar was born. He is of Judeo-Spanish (Sephardi c) origin.
When the Germans invaded France in 1940, Morin assisted refugees and joined the French Resistance. Morin, the Jewish resistance fighter, lived in mortal danger during the war years. While a member of the French Resistance he adopted the pseudonym Morin, which he continues to use. He joined the French Communist Party in 1941, which he eventually left.
In addition to being the UNESCO Chair of Complex Thought, Morin is known as a founder of "trans-disciplinarity" 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 Leà ³n, Universite' Laval à Que'bec, 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 Paris, have established research centers based on his transdisciplinary methods and philosophy. [25] In addition, the Multiversidad Mundo Real Edgar Morin, a university based on his work, was established in Mexico.
He has been recognized for his scholarly contributions to such diverse fields as media studies, politics, sociology, visual anthropology[B1] , ecology, education, and systems biology. 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.
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Clearly, if we wish to preserve humanity and the biosphere, we need to expand our awareness to be able to observe and change our ingrained thought processes.
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