Myron Kofman.
Edgar Morin: from big brother to fraternity.
Pluto Press. 1996
Morin’s achievements as an opponent of all kinds of determinism have helped shape French and European culture towards and through the collapse of Marxism. As the most self-referential French intellectual since Montaigne, his hostility to the notion of rigid, objective boundaries between disciplines and fields of scholarship and enquiry owes much to his insistence on the primacy of personal experience. A self-styled ‘poacher’ or smuggler across rigid ideological and intellectual divides, Morin’s enjoyment of his ‘contraband’ runs parallel in France with his status as an agnostic messiah.
This study of Morin’s work is the first to introduce his ideas to a wider English language readership.