Pascal Ory

Tribute to Edgar Morin: Macron hails 'exceptional destiny of his time'

During a national tribute at Les Invalides on Wednesday, the French president honoured philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin, who has died at 104, praising him as a man who never yielded to “the truth of a single camp, a single dogma”. “His was an exceptional destiny in this century”, “a humanist with a global outlook, certainly, but irreducibly French in his battles for freedom, equality, emancipation and also fraternity with all peoples deprived of their rights”, said the head of state...