Edgar Morin: Selected Summaries: SELECTED SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

We have summarized the essentials of four short texts by this prestigious thinker: from LA CABEZA BIEN PUESTA. RETHINKING REFORM. REFORMING THOUGHT, we offer ANNEX 2 INTER-PLURI-TRANSDISCIPLINARITY. It is followed by INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEX THINKING and the text closes with brief synthesized passages from "Science with Conscience" and "The Lost Paradigm".
    

• Language: English
• Publisher: LIBROS Y RESÚMENES DE MAURICIO E. FAU
• Release date: Sep 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201287788

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Edgar Morin: Selected Summaries

SELECTED SUMMARIES

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EDGAR MORIN: SELECTED SUMMARIES

First edition. September 22, 2021.

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Edgar Morin: Selected Summaries (RESÚMENES SELECCIONADOS)

Further Reading: Resúmenes Seleccionados: Gilles Lipovetsky

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Morin, Edgar

THE HEAD ON STRAIGHT

RETHINKING REFORM. REFORMING THINKING

APPENDIX 2 INTER-PLURI-TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

DISCIPLINE organizes, divides and specializes scientific knowledge. It delimits itself from the rest of the disciplines, it seeks autonomy. It is what characterizes knowledge since the 19th century; therefore, discipline has an origin not only linked to pure knowledge but also to society.

Virtue of specialization and risk of hyperspecialization

The VIRTUE of disciplines is given by the fact that, WITHOUT THEM, KNOWLEDGE WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO APPRECIATE.

The RISK is HYPERSPECIALIZATION and reification of the object of study, that is, the possibility of forgetting that this object has been constructed and believing that it is self-sufficient, being unnecessary to relate it to other objects of other disciplines.

The extra-disciplinary eye

OFTEN, A LOOK FROM OUTSIDE THE DISCIPLINE SOLVES A PROBLEM THAT WAS UNSOLVABLE FROM WITHIN. For example, meteorologist Wegener looked as an amateur at the map of the South Atlantic and realized that West Africa and Brazil fit into each other. He investigated similarities of fauna and flora, fossil and present-day, and put forward in 1912 the theory of the drift of the continents, which was rejected by specialists, but recognized decades later, after the discovery of plate tectonics.

JACQUES LABEYRIE'S THEOREM: WHEN NO SOLUTION IS FOUND WITHIN A DISCIPLINE, THE SOLUTION COMES FROM OUTSIDE THE DISCIPLINE.

USURPATIONS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY migrations

The history of science is the history of the formation and development of disciplines, but also of the ruptures of their boundaries, of the usurpations of a problem of one discipline by another, of the formation of hybrid disciplines. In short, the history of inter-pluri-disciplines.

For example, the physicist Schrödinger projected on the biological organism problems of thermodynamics and physical organization. Later, others tried to discover the properties of genes from the chemical properties of DNA. This process gave rise to molecular biology, which at first was not considered a discipline.

Migrations

SOME CONCEPTS OF A DISCIPLINE ARE APPLIED IN NEW FIELDS: the notion of information, coming from the social, was applied with a new and precise scientific meaning in Shannon's theory. And from there it migrated to genetic biology, where it was associated with code, a term arising from law. Thus arose the genetic code. However, molecular biology often forgets that many of its concepts come from other disciplines: information, code, heritage, message.

It is also frequent that COGNITIVE SCHEMES are used from one discipline to another: for example, Claude Lévi-Strauss elaborated his structural anthropology on the basis of Roman Jakobson's structural linguistics, when both were in exile and met.

Inter- and pluri-disciplinary objects and projects

In history, the Annals school remained vital