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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin, the great French thinker, a person who, in this time of forgetting and false egalitarianism, still dares to call himself an intellectual says that the job of his particular caste is:

"to lay the fundamental and universal problems that today are completely hidden and which experts of specialized intelligence are unable to imagine"
Posted by HISP 290 at 8:10 AM

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