What do you think was the main singularity of Edgar Morin in the French intellectual landscape?
His extraordinary independence and freedom from the French university system. Noticed by his professor and Resistance companion Georges Friedmann, this self-taught and free spirit entered the CNRS without having submitted a doctoral thesis and then carried out his work there as he wished. See The Metamorphosis of Plodémet (1967), an unpublished work of embedded sociology, the result of bistro discussions with the inhabitants of this Breton village!
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