Social Sciences, Complexity and Sociology of the Present in Edgar Morin

The article intends to revisit the contribution of the french thinker Edgar Morin 1921- to the construction of a plural and open method of research in Social Sciences We will have as theoretical-epistemological basis the sociology of the present an approach of social phenomena developed by the author during three decades from the 1940s to the 1970s constituting the matrix of complex thinking The present work defends the idea that the central categories of the present sociology such as phenomenon crisis and event as well as the so-called living method of empirical research are still fundamental today in the sense of proposing an opening of the social sciences to phenomena increasingly more complex and multidimensional This presupposes the researcher s subjective and objective engagement narrative ability and sensitivity to grasp revealing detai

From Ontology to Anthropotechnics: Humanism, Media and Domestication of Being

In this essay we intend to approach how Peter Sloterdijk relates to the thinking of Martin Heidegger when questioning the humanist definition of man and proposing the notion of Anthropotechnics To this end the article begins by exposing Heidegger s conception of Technique and Humanism and Ernst J nger s influence on this issue Then when dealing with the question of being and ontological difference the peculiar treatment that Sloterdijk offers to the ontological question is presented by articulating the history of being with a kind of genealogy of the clearing bringing to the foreground certain intuitions of Friedrich Nietzsche about the beginnings of the human species To conclude Sloterdijk s thinking is developed culminating in what he calls ontoanthropology a notion presented in the work La Domestication de l tre and possible applications to issues related to biotechnology and contemporary media - which allows us to think a machinic history of being under the doubly complex bias of anthropology and ontolog

Balzac e a literatura de complexidade

From a critique of journalistic practice, this article works on the hypothesis that the work of Honoré de Balzac approaches a literature of complexity, through the engendering of a network of characters, knowledge, plots and actions. Through primary and secondary literature review, we observed that Balzac recovers the etymological meaning of the word complexus “what weaves together” (MORIN, 1996). In our view, Balzac adopts a recursive, hologrammatic and knowledge reconnection methodology. Our analysis identifies communicational, aesthetic and literary aspects in the French author, and classifies him as a transdisciplinary artist-researcher, of diffuse poetic interest and endowed with immense imagination. Our conclusion suggests the need for further research between the communicational, literary and complexity fields

Palcos do conhecimento, da comunicação e cultura

Neste artigo o autor discute o papel das narrativas mitológicas na construção do conhecimento

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