Download or read book Edgar Morin et la complexit du paradigme de la nature humaine written by Joseph Kalamba Mutanga and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Challenge of Complexity written by Amy Heath-Carpentier and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Complexity gathers in one volume over 32 essays by the esteemed French philosopher and sociologist, Edgar Morin, probably France's greatest living public intellectual. The essays span six decades of his career, addressing topics such as complexity, sociology, ecology, education, film, biology, and politics. At his centenary (July 2021), Morin holds honorary doctorates from over 20 universities in Europe and Latin America, and recently the Centre d'Etudes Transdisciplinaires, Sociologie, Anthropologie, Histoire, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the prestigious French National Research Center, was renamed the Centre Edgar-Morin. He is also the UNESCO Chair of Complex Thought. Several university centres and institutes have been dedicated to advancing his work in Europe and Latin America. He is the author of more than 80 books, translated into 28 languages, and the 1960 documentary Chronicle of a Summer, which he co-directed with Jean Rouch, has become a classic and the first example of cinema verite. Morin's work on complexity is distinct from the mathematically driven science of complexity. He argues for an epistemological revolution and focuses on the need to develop complex thought to address the lived complexity of an interconnected, interdependent, uncertain world. Morin's contribution in such a wide range of disciplines has been influential because of his ability to bring complex thought to bear on seemingly diverse topics, reflecting on the limitations of how they are approached and articulating a transdisciplinary way that doesnt sacrifice complexity in an effort to find an oversimplified clarity. Morin illuminates the complexity and creativity of the world and of our lived experience, and invites us to participate in the creative process that is existence itself. A substantive overview of Morin's philosophical journey by Alfonso Montuori introduces the reader to Morin's remarkable work and life. And the work is completed by a substantive Letter from Edgar Morin, putting his life's work in the context of recent advances in Science and the Humanities.
Download or read book Le Paradigme perdu La nature humaine written by Edgar Morin and published by Média Diffusion. This book was released on 2014-01-31T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il faut cesser de disjoindre Nature et Culture : la clé de la culture est dans notre nature et la clé de notre nature est dans la culture.Il faut cesser de réduire l'homme à l'homo faber et l'homo sapiens. Homo, qui apporte au monde magie, mythe, délire, est doué à la fois de raison et de déraison : sapiens-demens. Au-delà d'une conception étroite et fermée de la vie (biologisme), d'une conception insulaire et sur-naturelle de l'homme (anthropologisme), d'un concept ignorant la vie et l'individu (sociologisme), il faut concevoir l'homme comme espèce, société, individu.Edgar MorinDirecteur de recherche émérite au CNRS, est docteur honoris causa de nombreuses universités à travers le monde. Son travail exerce une forte influence sur la réflexion contemporaine, notamment dans le monde méditerranéen, en Amérique latine, et jusqu'en Chine, en Corée et au Japon.
Download or read book Complexity Thinking in Translation Studies written by Kobus Marais and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights a range of perspectives on the ways in which complexity thinking might be applied in translation studies, focusing in particular on methods to achieve this. The book introduces the topic with a brief overview of the history and conceptualization of complexity thinking. The volume then frames complexity theory through a variety of lenses, including translation and society, interpreting studies, and Bible translation, to feature case studies in which complexity thinking has successfully been or might be applied within translation studies. Using complexity thinking in translation studies as a jumping off point from which to consider the broader implications of implementing quantitative approaches in qualitative research in the humanities, this volume is key reading for graduate students and scholars in translation studies, cultural studies, semiotics, and development studies.
Download or read book On Complexity written by Edgar Morin and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume contains some key essays by French thinker Edgar Morin on the subject of complexity, and specifically on what Morin calls complex thought."--Pub. desc.
Download or read book Le Le Paradigme Perdu written by Edgar Morin and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory written by Søren Askegaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory is the first work to compile the contributions of the greatest social thinkers in the global conversation about consumption and consumer culture. A prestigious reference work, it offers original chapters by the world's most prominent thought leaders and surveys how the work of historical theorists has influenced and shaped consumption theory, both through history and at the cutting edge of research. Consumption is at the core of contemporary lifestyles, of political successes and failures and of discussions around sustainability and environmental change. Contemporary consumer culture shapes modern identities, and is the engine of the globalizing capitalist economy. Still, most social theorizations over the last century and a half have addressed production processes rather than consumption processes. This is about to change. Studies of consumption play an increasing role as a topic and a domain of study in marketing, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. Currently, there is no single compilation that systematically links scholarly work published by the greatest social thinkers of the last 150 years to the understanding of contemporary consumer society. This book provides a solid framework for understanding the relevance of these canonical authors in social theory to facilitate analysis of consumer culture, and to act as a comprehensive reference point for consumer researchers, doctoral students and practitioners.
Download or read book Research Handbook on the Metaverse and Law written by Larry A. DiMatteo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Handbook analyses the role of law in a universe fractured by new disruptive technologies such as metaverse platforms. Contributing authors explore how the law will adapt as new dimensions of the metaverse are introduced to issues such as intellectual property rights, e-commerce, NFTs and cryptocurrencies, data privacy, contract law, as well as human rights, consumer law and criminal law. The abuse and manipulation of users is studied in several contributions.
Download or read book Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious written by Nidesh Lawtoo and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of violence are often said to generate cathartic effects, but what does “catharsis” mean? And what theory of the unconscious made this concept so popular that it reaches from classical antiquity to the digital age? In Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious, Nidesh Lawtoo reframes current debates on (new) media violence by tracing the philosophical, aesthetic, and historical vicissitudes of the “catharsis hypothesis” from antiquity to modernity and into the present. Drawing on theorists of mimesis from Aristotle to Nietzsche, Bernays to Breuer, Freud to Girard to Morin, Lawtoo offers a genealogy of the relationship between violence and the unconscious with at least two aims: First, this study gives an account of the birth of the Oedipal unconscious—out of a “cathartic method.” Second, it provides new theoretical foundations to solve a riddle of (new) media violence that may no longer rest on Oedipal solutions. In the process, Lawtoo outlines a new theory of violence, mimesis, and the unconscious that does not have desire as a via regia, but rather, the untimely realization that all affects spread contagiously and thus mimetically.
Download or read book Art and Sustainability written by Sacha Kagan and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the cultural dimension of sustainability? This book offers a thought-provoking answer, with a theoretical synthesis on »cultures of sustainability«. Describing how modernity degenerated into a culture of unsustainability, to which the arts are contributing, Sacha Kagan engages us in a fundamental rethinking of our ways of knowing and seeing the world. We must learn not to be afraid of complexity, and to re-awaken a sensibility to patterns that connect. With an overview of ecological art over the past 40 years, and a discussion of art and social change, the book assesses the potential role of art in a much needed transformation process.
Download or read book Penser avec Edgar Morin Lire La M thode 2e dition written by Robin Fortin and published by Presses de l'Université Laval. This book was released on 2006-08-17T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La pensée d’Edgar Morin est inclassable. Ni science ni philosophie, enjambant la science et la philosophie, les sciences humaines et les sciences naturelles, sa pensée échappe aux classements disciplinaires et aux modes de connaissance compartimentée. Edgar Morin a abordé des disciplines aussi différentes que la biologie, la sociologie, l’anthropologie, la philosophie et l’épistémologie des sciences. Comment résumer une œuvre qui couvre plus de soixante années de vie intellectuelle? Comment en dégager un esprit général qui ne soit pas une réduction caricaturale? En passant par La Méthode dont la publication s’est étalée sur presque trente ans (1977-2004). Déjà en gestation dans les premiers travaux d’Edgar Morin (L’Homme et la Mort, Le Vif du sujet, Le Paradigme perdu), La Méthode est le creuset d’où sont sorties de nombreuses ramifications, sociologiques, politiques, éducatives (Terre-Patrie, La Voie, Les Sept savoirs nécessaires à l’éducation du futur), ramifications distinctes mais inséparables de la source qui les a fait naître. Ancien résistant et témoin privilégié de notre époque, Edgar Morin a traversé le XXe siècle en acteur de l’histoire. Il est l’auteur d’une œuvre transdisciplinaire abondamment commentée et traduite dans plusieurs langues. Son œuvre nous oblige à rompre avec la disjonction et la compartimentation des savoirs. Elle a pour dénominateur commun la recherche d’une connaissance non mutilée et le souci d’une pensée capable d’affronter la complexité du réel.
Download or read book Biodeconstruction written by Francesco Vitale and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes Derridas 1975 seminar La vie la mort as a deconstruction of biology with relevance to his work more broadly. In Biodeconstruction,Francesco Vitale demonstrates the key role that the question of life plays in Jacques Derridas work. In the seminar La vie la mort (1975), Derrida engages closely with the life sciences, especially biology and evolution theory. Connecting this line of thought to his analysis of cybernetics in Of Grammatology, Vitale shows how Derrida develops a notion of biological life as itself a sort of text that is necessarily open onto further articulations and grafts. This sets the stage for the deconstruction of the traditional opposition between life and death, conceiving of death as an internal condition of the constitution of the living rather than being the opposite of life. It also provides the basis for the deconstruction of the rigidly deterministic concept of the genetic program, an insight that anticipates recent achievements of biological research in epigenetics and sexual reproduction. Finally, Vitaleargues that this framework can enrich our understanding of Derridas late work devoted to political issues, connecting his use of the autoimmunitarian lexicon to the theory of cellular suicide in biology. This book is extremely interesting and engaging, and provides a very original and timely perspective on Derridas work. Its greatest strength is bringing together Derridas deconstruction in his analysis of the life sciences under the heading of biodeconstruction. This term is simple but ingenious, and captures beautifully the material dimension of Derridas work. Nicole Anderson, author of Derrida: Ethics Under Erasure
Download or read book Shifting Protracted Conflict Systems Through Local Interactions written by Tamra Pearson Pearson d’Estrée and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the evolution of theoretical and practical approaches to intervening in protracted conflicts, following the work of Herb Kelman. Interactive problem solving, as developed by Kelman and others, sought to increase understanding about the microprocesses of international relations. Kelman early on emphasised the centrality of an interactive approach for constructing new identities, new narratives, and new ways forward. Transforming conflict systems requires strategic attention to the interactions between agents of change that provide stability or induce shift. This volume on interactive conflict approaches includes both critical reflections and new ideas from scholar-practitioners who have developed, revised, and expanded these approaches. Contributors take up important issues, from the shape and likelihood of solutions in intractable conflicts to how individuals can exist in realities with seemingly irresolvable inner and outer conflicts. The volume represents the best of current thinking about how the mechanisms, theoretical framework, and application of interactive problem solving should be moved into the twenty-first century context of increasing complexity, increasing uncertainty, and increasing polarisation. This book will be of interest to students of peace studies, conflict resolution, and international relations.
Download or read book California Journal written by Edgar Morin and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reform in thinking is a key anthropological and historical problem. This implies a mental revolution of considerably greater proportions than the Copernican revolution. Never before in the history of humanity have the responsibilities of thinking weighed so crushingly on us. --- History has not reached a stagnant end, nor is it triumphantly marching towards the radiant future. It is being catapulted into an unknown adventure." - Edgar Morin --- In 1969, California is not just the new Eldorado, it is the crucible where civilization is accelerating, self-destructs, and is reborn. It's the probe of Spaceship Earth. It's the hippy phenomenon, the communes, the ecological movement, the great collective ceremonies like park-ins and rock concerts, the flourishing of sects ranging from mystics to Marxists, the experience of "weed" and "acid." These are all temporary images and elements of a search for a new truth, a new religion, a new society. Long before it became fashionable for European intellectuals to write about their voyages to the United States, Edgar Morin, one of France's leading intellectual figures and, at that time, known as a path-breaking and innovative sociologist and researcher of popular culture, recounts the story of his experiences in the cauldron of change that was California, including his encounters with some of the leading minds of that time. Now translated in English, California Journal combines Morin's account of his experiences with his own search for answers to fundamental questions about the human condition. For a few months, the author had a profound feeling of being drawn into the heart of the "great questions," played out personally and societally. The result is an engaging and prophetic work that has as much if not more to offer today than it did when it was first published in French.
Download or read book La m thode de La M thode written by Edgar Morin and published by Actes Sud. This book was released on 2024-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Le cosmos s’organise en se désorganisant, ses formes sont issues de la déstructuration, du chaos, des cataclysmes, des interactions désordonnées et aléatoires. Destruction et création s’entremêlent, se combattent et s’entre-fécondent pour produire le devenir du cosmos, mais la vie demeure fragile, précaire, jamais confirmée dans son propre avenir.” “Je suis arrivé à la conviction qu’en dehors de la complexité, il n’y a qu’automutilation, mutilation d’autrui, mutilation du réel. L’incapacité à accepter la complexité de la réalité conduit non pas à l’irréalité, mais à la simplification forcée de la réalité. La complexité est aujourd’hui la vertu révolutionnaire. La révolution qui simplifie la lutte, qui simplifie le modèle, qui simplifie la solution, et qui manichéise tout ce qu’elle touche est réactionnaire.” “J’ai écrit ce texte dans les années 1983-1984, dans un petit port de la Côte d’Azur dont j’ai oublié le nom. Mon idée était de faire le troisième et dernier volume de La Méthode. Mais les choses ont pris un autre tournant, ce projet est tombé dans l’oubli et j’ai fini par perdre le manuscrit...” Les tomes 1 à 6 ont paru aux éditions du Seuil : La Nature de la Nature, 1977 La Vie de la Vie, 1980 La Connaissance de la Connaissance, 1986 Les Idées, 1991 L’Humanité de l’Humanité, 2001 Éthique, 2004
