-The sociologist Edgar Morin, born in 1921, tells Fernand Seguin about his life and the political commitments of his youth, particularly with the French Communist Party. His abandonment of this ideology for post-Marxism. Morin discusses ...See more-The sociologist Edgar Morin, born in 1921, tells Fernand Seguin about his life and the political commitments of his youth, particularly with the French Communist Party. His abandonment of this ideology for post-Marxism. Morin discusses his many fields of interest: the role of mass communications in the development of society; the definition of mass culture, its diffusion, what it reflects, its contradictions, the conclusions of his research on the concrete utopia of mass culture; the analysis of the youth protest movement and the relationship between these young people and their parents; solutions to the malaise of civilization; the role of the sociologist in the modern world.
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