I met Edgar Morin on June 9, 2005, while working on my PhD thesis, in joint supervision between the University La Sorbonne-Paris 5 and the University of Rome La Sapienza, then discussed in December 2007. The thesis concerned the imaginary methodologies in sociology between France and Italy; with other empirical studies, it included a number of in-depth interviews with privileged witnesses who had worked on social imaginary in the two countries. So I chose to interview, among others, Edgar Morin. Here, I entered some tracks translated into Italian, integrating them with specific insights on the texts cited by him in the course of the speech, that still implicitly refers his reflection
