Edgar
Morin
biography
His real name was Nahum; he was born in Paris in 1921. Morin is the name he took on from a girlfriend during the Resistance. He joined the French Communist Party from which he was expelled in 1951 for an article he had written in the France-Observateur. He is a sociologist at the C.N.R.S. (International Centre for Scientific Research); in the 1950s he carried out research work into fan-worship, young people and mass culture, for which he is still remembered today. He collaborated with the France-Observateur and then with the Nouvel Observateur In 1956, together with other deserters of the French Communist Party he founded the magazine Arguments, published until 1962. In 1967 together with R. Barthes and G. Friedmann, he founded the magazine Communications. In 1988 he was appointed President of the Scientific Committee for the new syllabus reform in secondary schools.
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