Images of a complex mind

A friend of Edgar Morin qualifies him as a « thinker who gives meaning ». If it gives meaning, it is certainly by the depth and coherence of his pluri-dimensional method, but it is also by the formidable proximity that he restores between him and his readers. Everybody carries within himself a part of Edgar Morin, everybody takes a small part of complicity of this human and intellectual adventure. Within Edgar Morin s literary works, life and thought are intimately tied together, as well as the experiences, encounters and related emotions, for example, in his intellectual biography My Demons, the previously mentioned feelings are a springboard to reflections, as well as a smooth invitation to the introspection of our own doubts and pre-judgments. It is in this sense that the testimonies of twenty-nine researchers intersect, all who come abroad from different geographical horizons (France, Mexico, Portugal, Italy, Brazil, Netherlands, Cuba, Russia, Congo...), as well as intellectual horizons (Anthropology, sociology, economy, geology, political sciences...). Each one of them, acting as a protagonist of a play, intervenes in an autonomous way but in response to the precedents in order to clarify the major reasons of their interest for the morinean thought as well as a signal of their admiration for the human being. Far from building an exhaustive homage, closed on itself, the book calls out to personal reflection: Why complexity? What will remain of Edgar Morin in the centuries to come? How to explain such an international passion around the ideas humbly defended by Edgar Morin? An essential literary work for whoever wishes to discover or look further into their comprehension of the integrational paradigm of complexity.