Confined, he says he felt “Psychically projected into permanent communication and communion” with the world to which he remains virtually connected. He who has always lived fully, whose century of existence is made up of perpetual displacement and political and intellectual commitments. Born in 1921, Edgar Morin, sociologist, philosopher, “Humanologist”, he says, world famous writer, thinker of “complexity” with abundant and encompassing work (the method is his major work), lived the Resistance, crossed the XXe century between wonder and revolt. He looks back on these two crazy weeks that have seen the whole world affected by the spread of the coronavirus, then switch to generalized confinement. The emeritus research director at CNRS, almost a century old with unshakable optimism and a luminous gaze, sees in this moment of planetary stopping the opportunity for a “Healthy existential crisis”.
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