Edgar Morin

Interview

• "Teaching mass media" (Napoli, 19/05/93)

Biography

Edgar Morin was born in Paris in 1921. He joined the Communist Party when he was twenty years old, during the occupation of France, and was expelled ten years later. He was a co-founder of the committee of intellectuals against the war in North Africa. He contributed political articles to "France-Observateur". In 1957 he founded "Arguments" and in 1967 "Communications". He is a member of the French National Committee for Scientific Research and in 1987 was awarded the Charles Veillon prize.

Bibliography

Among his published works:

• L'an zéro de l'Allemagne (1947);
• Autocritique (1959);
• L'homme et la morte (1951);
• Les stars, 1957;
• L'esprit du temps, 1962;
• Introduction à une politique de l'homme (1965);
• Vie commune en France. La metamorphose de Plodémet ,1967.

Among his works published in English:

• New trends in the study of mass communications (1969);
• Rumour in Orleans with Bernard Paillard (1971);
• The nature of nature (1992);
• Theory and Practice of the Contemporary Self-Portrait: Edgar Morin and Roland Barthes (1982).