Edgar Morin, whose real name is Edgar Nahoum, was born on July 8, 1921, and is the only child of Vidal Nahoum and Luna Beressi, who died when he was only nine years old.
Graduated in Law, Geography and History, he also studied philosophy, sociology and epistemology.
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Edgar Nahoum was born on July 8, 1921 at around 4 am in Paris. His mother, Luna, died on June 26, 1931, when he was about to turn 10. From then on, Edgar came to understand death as pain, horror and secret.
Still in his childhood and adolescence, Edgar felt suffocated by his father's excessive care. Despite all his father's care and concern to always have him close by, no principles were imposed on him. In this way, he developed his own ethics.
Among the writers Edgar read were Dostoyevsky, Balzac, and Anatole France. As for school, Morin believes that it only taught him about France, and that everything else he learned was on his self-taught path.
He joined the Communist Party in 1941, and served in the party for ten years. It was at this same time that Edgar met Violet Chapellaubeau, whom he married in the final period of the war. With her Edgar had two daughters.
The codename Morin was adopted when he served as a lieutenant in the French combat forces in 1944. He actively participated in the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation during the Second World War. Thus, he withdrew from the Communist Party, which he was expelled from.
While studying he didn't see himself with the skills to practice any profession, except answering his questions. In this way, he studied History, Geography, Sociology, Law and Political Science.
In the following years, he released his first book, Germany's Year Zero, which is a narrative about post-World War II Germany.
Between 1949 and 1951 he prepared the book, Man and Death, which is an attempt to integrate death into the parameters of reflection in anthropology.
Edgar founded with some friends the Arguments Magazine, and since then began to analyze events that were taking place in political and social life. During the same period he published the book, Spirit and Time.
As he was always in the process of learning, relearning, and organizing the studied principles, Edgar wrote The method, beginning his writing process in 1970, and releasing six volumes between 1978 and 2004.
With the publication of The Method, he became known as a pioneer and the main theorist of the emerging paradigm of science at the turn of the century: the pcomplex thinking.
After his marriage to Violette, Edgar married twice more. Being them with the plastic artist Joanne and with Edwiges.
Edgar is considered one of the most important thinkers still alive.
Of all his theories, the Complexity Theory, one of the best known, is the key idea of the six-volume collection written by Edgar, The Method. This theory, based on its fundamentals and concepts, is widely used in the field of Education.
This theory is based on formulations that emerged in the field of exact and natural sciences, such as information and systems theories. Thus, they emphasized the importance of not having a division between disciplines.
Morin believes that elementary school teachers have a duty to break down barriers to knowledge, for two reasons.
First, because early grade teachers deal with generalist experiences. Second, because at this stage children have a way of thinking that has not yet been influenced by the separation of disciplines.
In general, Morin believes that knowledge needs to be interconnected to form a configuration that makes sense and responds to our expectations, our desires and our cognitive questions.
