Edgar Morin, ‘Grandfather’ of French Intellectuals, Dies at 104
Government
Edgar Morin, a French sociologist, anthropologist, ecologist, philosopher and filmmaker whose work spanned epochs and disciplines, dazzling his countrymen with his erudition and life lessons learned in the Resistance, died on Friday in Paris. He was 104. Mr. Morin’s death was confirmed by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who saluted him in a post on X as a “soldier of the Resistance, fighter and free spirit, a defender of nature and humanity,” and called him “humanism personified.” He was
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