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Impassioning and rich dialogue between two thinkers of our time whose common feature is the interdisciplinarity: sociology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Morin and Cyrulnik note one and the other the indissociability of the brain and the spirit, the interdependence of cultural and psychological, cerebral and the biological one. To the fragmentation of the compartmentalized speech, techno-scientist, they oppose the speech of the gathering, connection, the communication and the empathy.

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We ask the thought that it dissipate the fogs and the darknesses, that it puts order and clearness in reality, that it reveals the laws which control it. The word of complexity, can only express our embarrassment to him, our confusion, our incapacity to define in a simple way, to name in a clear way, to order our ideas. Its definition first cannot provide any elucidation: is complex what cannot be summarized in a Master word, which cannot be brought back to a law nor to be reduced to a simple idea. Complexity is a word problem and not a word solution. Edgar Morin proposes here a thought which takes up the challenges of complexity in order to better include/understand our people, our humanity, our world.

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Who are we? More we know the human one less include/understand we it: dissociations between disciplines split up it, empty it life, of flesh, of complexity, and certain sciences considered human drain even the concept of man. This work breaks with the parcelling out of the human one. It breaks with the reducing designs (homo sapiens, homo, faber and homo economicus) which deprive the human being at the same time of biological identity, subjective identity and social identity. Rather than to juxtapose the knowledge dispersed in sciences and humanities, this book is given for vocation to connect them, articulate them, reflect them in order to think human complexity. It complexes the direction of the word man by reinstating the female one in it occulted under the male connotation, and by giving him the direction trinitaire which locates it at the laws in and out nature: individual, company, species; it proposes to conceive these terms in their complementarities like in their antagonism: reciprocal. It tries to think a humanity enriched by all its contradictions (the human one and the inhuman one, the return to oneself and the opening to the others, rationality and affectivity, reason and the myth, the antiquated one and the history, determinism and freedom). This humanity runs the risk unceasingly to degenerate, risk in which however it can be regenerated. Finally this book considers the destiny of the human identity which is played in the planetary crisis in progress. It is vital from now on to teach humanity with humanity. The human Identity is the synthesis of a life: all the topics of preceding works of the author are joined together in a configuration and an orchestration news

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With the publication of this fifth volume, Edgar Morin continues the achievement of a singular work - Method - already greeted and recognized in many countries. In this volume (which will be followed of a "Ethics"), it proposes to explore this imperceptible human identity in which Pascal saw a "mystery" or one "embrouillement". What makes us man? Which is, in our irreducible identity, the share of biology, that of the History or the policy? "the knowledge of the human one - he writes - must be at the same time a more scientist, much more philosophical and finally much more poetic than it is it" In these dazzling pages of scholarship and of freedom, Edgar Morin, one included/understood it, continues his combat which been obstinated against the splitting up of the knowledge, which is too often only the alibi of a renouncement to be thought. The human Identity is the synthesis of a life: all the topics of preceding works of the author are joined together in a new orchestration. The vocation of this book is to connect the knowledge on the human one dispersed in sciences and humanities, to articulate them, to reflect them in order to think human complexity at the same time in its biological identity, its subjective identity and its social identity.

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This sixth and last volume of the Method constitutes the point of arrival of the philosopher's stone of Edgar Morin, translated and taken again in edition of pocket in many countries. This work made complexity a fundamental problem elucidate and treat; since, it made school and caused a movement "to reform the thought". In this volume 6, most concrete and, perhaps, most accessible, the author starts from our contemporary crisis, properly Western, from ethics and returns there finally after an examination to the laws anthropological, historical and philosophical. If the duty cannot result from a knowledge, the duty needs a knowledge. The moral conscience cannot result from the intellectual conscience but it needs the intellectual conscience, i.e. of thought and reflexion. Indeed, the good intention is likely to determine bad actions and the moral will to have immoral consequences. From where relevance of the moral precept of Pascal: "to work with thinking well". To make its duty is often neither simple nor obvious, but dubious and random: this is why ethics is complex. Beyond the moralism as beyond the nihilism, the author, rather than to yield to the traditional claim to found morals, seeks to find and regenerate the sources in the life of them, in the company in the individual, since the human one is at the same time individu/société/espèce. He deals with permanent but unceasingly worsened problems relation between ethics and policy, science and ethics.

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A strange rumour (the disappearance of girls in the fitting salons of Jewish tradesmen) was spread, without there being least disappearance, in the city whose name symbolizes measurement and balance: Orleans. Edgar Morin and a team of researchers carried out the survey on the spot. Why Orleans? Why Jews? Why and how a rumour is propagated? Does this rumour convey a myth? Which is this myth and which he says us on our culture and ourselves? Questions arise: did an anti-semitism hitherto latent again wake up? There is not, in our modern cities, a new Age Means which advances?

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The work appeared for the first time in 1969. It acts of a sociological study of the set of themes of the rumour, through a rumour which circulated in Orleans (in France): Jewish tradesmen would have delivered themselves to the draft of the women. The author sees in this rumour the mythological twinning of two sets of themes: draft of white and anti-semitism. The company of demythification of the author was without effect, because the same phenomenon reproduced elsewhere in France. Second half of the book contains information on the survey carried out to this occasion and reproduced documents into the subject. -- Documentary Services Multi-media