Whether he is in Paris or Marrakech, where he lives a few months a year, the great French philosopher, sociologist, and writer Edgar Morin affirms that he “has never ceased to be curious about the world,” in the columns of the newspaper Le Parisien.
“In Paris or Marrakech, I have never ceased to be curious about the world of which I am an atom,” confides Edgar Morin to the French newspaper, which dedicates a portrait to him on the occasion of the release of his new book, “Are there lessons from history?”, a short essay in which “he takes us on the great journey of humanity.”
The daily newspaper, which went to meet him at his residence in the Ochre City, evokes “a man of peace, a humanist, a conveyor of history who carries his age incredibly well.”
Edgar Morin, who will celebrate his 104th birthday in July, settles in Morocco, his wife's country, “where it is so mild and where the light is so beautiful,” he explains.
“The older I get, the more I want sun. I hate Parisian autumns and winters, which are all grey,” adds the man who every year flees “the bad season” to enjoy the Mediterranean mildness.
He even almost became a farmer, thinking of rehabilitating a farm near Marrakech by drawing inspiration from agroecology.
To summarise his thought, Edgar Morin says: “The human, whom I have always considered as a trinity, the species, the society, and the individual, is at the centre of all my reflections.”
As he writes in “La Méthode” (2008), one of his main works, he has spent his life trying to grasp the complexity of the world, concludes the publication.
“In Paris or Marrakech, I have never ceased to be curious about the world of which I am an atom,” confides Edgar Morin to the French newspaper, which dedicates a portrait to him on the occasion of the release of his new book, “Are there lessons from history?”, a short essay in which “he takes us on the great journey of humanity.”
The daily newspaper, which went to meet him at his residence in the Ochre City, evokes “a man of peace, a humanist, a conveyor of history who carries his age incredibly well.”
Edgar Morin, who will celebrate his 104th birthday in July, settles in Morocco, his wife's country, “where it is so mild and where the light is so beautiful,” he explains.
“The older I get, the more I want sun. I hate Parisian autumns and winters, which are all grey,” adds the man who every year flees “the bad season” to enjoy the Mediterranean mildness.
He even almost became a farmer, thinking of rehabilitating a farm near Marrakech by drawing inspiration from agroecology.
To summarise his thought, Edgar Morin says: “The human, whom I have always considered as a trinity, the species, the society, and the individual, is at the centre of all my reflections.”
As he writes in “La Méthode” (2008), one of his main works, he has spent his life trying to grasp the complexity of the world, concludes the publication.
