BLACK SOLIDARITY 'AND LIABILITY' solidarity and responsibility. These are the two main categories mentioned by Edgar Morin in a very interesting interview published by the Republic in recent days. It is obviously not the only interesting aspect of this encounter with the great thinker but if if you must reduce to a minimum what you take home from this proximity to the French, in my opinion, no reversals and ideological transformation and never failing in his intellectual honesty, went through all the main currents of thought of the twentieth century decline in the overall plan and particularly in his private cioè, approdando al vero banco di prova del presente, asse fondamentale per la costruzione del futuro, che sarà ridare speranza ai giovani. Senza ideologismi, senza interessate pacche sulle spalle, senza furbizie, dicendo la verità, oggetto sempre misterioso di questi tempi, cioè che non si ha un futuro per diritto di nascita ma solo se si è in grado di costruirlo. In questa intervista ci sono alcuni dei punti di riforimento culturali e politici nei quali mi riconosco meglio nel mio agire personale e di volontariato politico locale. Per questo mi permetto di annotarlo nella mia bacheca, anticipando queste premesse a chi capitasse di navigare in questo blog. Grazie ad Anais Ginori per questa ottima pagina di giornalismo, nella migliore tradizione della professione, quando ci si ricorda che buon giornalismo è agire con spirito di servizio, nel rispetto del lettore/utilizzatore, contribuendo ad aggiungere nuove conoscenze a quelle che c'erano prima di aver letto, visto o ascoltato, superando la prigione nella quale il giornalismo tifoso di questi tempi si è rinchiuso, a livello generale, privilegiando l'ossequio, l'ammiccamento o la partigianeria senza veli per il potente di turno, relegando nel sottoscala l'interesse generale delle persone e della sociatà o comunità.mb
Anais Ginori
Edgar Morin
[Repubblica - 02 gennaio 2011]
«Se fossi guidato solo dal lume della ragione, dovrei dire che il mondo va verso la catastrofe, that we are on the brink of the abyss. All the elements that we have under our eyes facing doomsday scenarios. But in the history of humanity there is the unexpected, the fact that unexpected that changes the course of things. That's why, after all, I am optimistic. "
Even when it comes to looking at the long term, Edgar Morin does not waive his famous "complex thought" theorizes that for forty years now. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. His trademark. Combine opposites, embracing different knowledge, as explained in the six volumes of the Méthode, encyclopaedic work written between 1967 and 2006, which earned him the nickname "Diderot of the twentieth century."
Morin is an eclectic thinker, culturally omnivore. Philosopher, sociologist, anthropologist, made a bibliography of over fifty titles, essays, ranging from the elaboration of mourning for the new myths of the show, from ecology to welfare reform. In a few months will turn ninety. Le Monde has devoted a special issue, according to the Nouvel Observateur is one of the "giants of thought" of the past century.
front of the computer in the closet of his apartment in the rue Saint-Claude, on the old printing presses of the Marais, works at the new book. Will be devoted to hope. "Yes, I would return it to young people who feel they have lost the future. We had faith in progress, we are deceived with the first communism and then with consumerism, democracy still seemed the perfect formula for coexistence. Now this horizon has been swept away. "
would never change places with a twenty year old today, even if he walks slowly into the empty house, with a cane. Two years ago, his third wife is dead, Edwige Lannegrace, to whom he dedicated a book, the Edwige inseparable. By Johanne Harelle Canadian model and actress, known in the U.S., had spent the Roaring Seventies traveling in Latin America. Great seducer, says he "drank his life." There has been plenty of everything.
Born in 1921 in the Sephardic Jewish community in the district of Menilmontant, he nearly died during childbirth, with her mother Luna, seriously diseased heart. "The doctors had advised her not to have children, she had hidden his illness Vidal also to my father." The mother survived by a miracle, the only child attends as a little prince, but nine years later, he suffered a heart attack. "That was my death Hiroshima" he recalls. No coincidence that his first book of anthropology, published in 1951 entitled L'homme et la mort, and analyzed, inter alia, the concept of resilience, the ability to withstand impact. During the Nazi occupation, is his second family. Log in fighting forces of the Resistance, the faction led by François Mitterrand. This is how the registry becomes Edgar Nahoum Edgar Morin, name Battle then held after the war. Learn how to hide, to buy the blow, to anticipate the movements of the police. One day is approaching Lyon, for an appointment. He has a hunch, decided not to go. The friend who is waiting for is captured, tortured and killed. In hiding, knows Chapellaubeau Violette, his first wife and mother of his daughters, Irène and Véronique. The day of liberation comes to Paris aboard a military car, waving the flag with her friend the novelist Marguerite Duras. Now decided to go to Baden-Baden.
In 1946, two years before the films of Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero writes a story about the country in ruins, an attempt to understand how the nation of Goethe and Beethoven could have caused the barbarism of Nazism. Up to thirty years has believed in the sun of. "I was a Communist war, because I gave priority to the fight against Nazism, thus ignoring the faults of Stalinism. But in peacetime, just have begun the processes and purges, I played my card. "
in 1951 is finally expelled from the leadership of the PCF in an article criticizing the Great Helmsman Mao Tse Tung. "The party was like a church, a sacred environment - remember - something unimaginable for today's youth." Morin writes Autocritique in those years, memories of a former Communist, usually intended to proselytize, in France and beyond. Today sees himself as "droitier leftist." "Right, because according to the revolutionary tradition I want to defend freedom, and left because I think there needs to be radical." Karl Marx, to whom he dedicated a short essay last year, says that "it was a formidable prophet of capitalist globalization, but did not see that homo faber, man the producer, was also the homo economicus, and that homo sapiens was also homo Demens, human folly, which is manifested in all human history. "
In 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy cited the "politics of civilization" theorized by Morin in his speech. He did not learn to like it. "I doubt that the president knows my work and the real meaning of this expression," repeated now, with a gesture of annoyance. For Morin, the "politics of civilization" is to return to the primacy of politics over economics, the public on the private sector. "The Left parties have accepted passively liberalism without realizing that it was necessary first to discuss rules and Protection of Human Rights. With economic globalization have had positive things, like the movement of people and ideas, but we have also integrated the pace of work in China. " In his own album with photos retains many of the leaders of the French left by Maurice Thorez Mitterrand, with whom he often contended. Yet every time that gauche is in trouble, Edgar Morin is consulted as an oracle. Everyone, even his enemies, the ability to recognize a big sniff l'esprit du temps, the spirit of the time, title of his study in 1962.
He baptized in the Sixties generation "yé yé" dependent children from consumerism, in 1993 he published a pamphlet on "Land-country" before environmentalism became a fad, has provided for the return of nationalism and xenophobia in Europe. "I was shocked to see what France did to Roma, a people persecuted for centuries, sent to concentration camps by the Nazis."
Morin is not afraid to be on political positions uncomfortable. It was deployed alongside the Palestinians during the intifada, he went to speak at the University of Sarajevo under the bombs.
As he speaks, he continues to see the email on your computer. "I'm already addicted to this thing" he jokes. Still traveling to conferences, especially in Brazil where there are several courses devoted to his work, has just received an invitation to go to China. His dream, now, would see the birth of a new season of the left. "There are no secrets. The two words that we are rediscovering solidarity and responsibility. In an ethical sense but also politically. The idea of \u200b\u200ba single left-wing party seems doomed to fail because it contains forces that have always fought, and that unlikely to overcome their different identities. Rather, it is preferable to a coalition that unites the left, without anyone having to renounce their own home, following a process of metamorphosis that I call. " In nature, he says, destroys the caterpillar becoming a chrysalis and then a butterfly. Changes but stays the same living being. "It's the exact opposite of the concept of making" tabula rasa, "as the slogan of the International. I think instead that we must move forward, always integrating our past. " Fear is the new ideology. A feeling that paralyzed the conscience, the disease of this century.
When the crisis erupted, Morin came loose from the pack. "It una straordinaria opportunità per ripensare il nostro stile di vita, il momento in cui si può finalmente imparare dai propri errori. Purtroppo non sta accadendo e siamo ancora dentro al tunnel. Ricordiamoci che Adolf Hitler è arrivato al potere in modo assolutamente legale, proprio dopo una lunga crisi economica». Ci salverà, forse, l'imponderabile. Quello che neanche accademici come Edgar Morin riescono a prevedere. La piccola Atene che resiste all'impero della Persia, facendo nascere la filosofia e la democrazia. L'Urss che nel 1941 respinge i nazisti all porte di Mosca, e prelude alla fine della guerra. «È già successo, succederà ancora» confida Morin, con il tono di chi ha ancora molto da studiare. Quando si balla sull'orlo dell'abisso non c'è tempo per annoiarsi.
Since my son started weaning I always have yogurt in the house with the yogurt and propose it to him every day in different ways. 
