Morin, Edgar
Method
Towards a Study of Humankind
Volume 1
The Nature of Nature
Translated and Introduced by J.L. Roland Bélanger
New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1992. 435 pp.
American University Studies: Series 5, Philosophy. Vol. 111
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Book synopsis
Method: The Nature of Nature is the first of several volumes exposing Edgar Morin's general systems view on life and society. The present
volume maintains that the organization of all life and society necessitates the simultaneous interplay of order and disorder. All systems, physical,
biological, social, political and informational, incessantly reshape part and whole through feedback, thereby generating increasingly complex
systems. For continued evolution, these simultaneously complementary, concurrent, and antagonistic systems require a priority of love over
truth, of subject over object, of Sy-bernetics over cybernetics.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Author: Edgar Morin, author of more than 30 books on movies, politics, sociology, and general systems, recently retired as Professor
at the University of Paris and as a director at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is considered one of France's
foremost exponents of information theory and general systems theory. He has lectured at universities around the world, and has several times
been Visiting Professor of French at New York University. He is currently completing Method, a study of humankind dealing with the physical,
biological, sociological and mythic systems enveloping human beings.
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