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Edgar Morin and Complex Thinking Amid Global Fragmentation
By Andres Kogan Valderrama
HAVANA TIMES – In light of the passing of French philosopher Edgar Morin at the age of 104, I would like to dedicate a few words to one of the thinkers who has contributed most to my understanding of—and search for possible ways out of—the current climate and civilizational crisis through his theory of complexity.
I put it this way because throughout his long life, Edgar Morin developed a critical perspective on the fragmentation of life and knowledge characteristic of Western modernity, which has imposed a logic of hyper-specialization in different fields, making a more integrated understanding of the world impossible.
Thus, viewing the world in a complex way, as Edgar Morin did, represented an enormous effort to reunite the scattered fragments left behind by simplification and to challenge a modern worldview that has artificially separated different forms of knowledge. This has contributed to creating a world lacking meaning and with little capacity for collective response to the multiple crises we........