Techrights — Links 31/05/2026: Heat Wave Grips France and Edgar Morin Dies

Liberation

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Writer and filmmaker, the environmental activist pays tribute to the sociologist and philosopher, who died on Saturday at 104 years of age.

Radio France

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The death of Edgar Morin invites a reflection on the intellectual commitment of Jewish figures within the radical left. Guillaume Erner observes the evolution of these relations towards increasing distrust within the political landscape.

partage-le.com

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Carole Delga, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Emmanuel Macron, Le Figaro, France Télévisions, François Hollande, Valérie Pécresse, Raphaël Glucksmann, AFP, Le Parisien, Natacha Polony, Ségolène Royal, Olivier Faure, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Bernard Cazeneuve, Xavier Bertrand and a crowd of other great names paid tribute to his Holiness Edgar Morin.

La Croix

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The philosopher and journalist Samuel Lacroix returns to the singular place of Edgar Morin, who died on May 29, 2026, in the French intellectual landscape and the precious legacy that he leaves to each of us. Samuel Lacroix coordinated, in 2024, a special issue of the journal Human Sciences, reissued on June 3, 2026 (1).

Proceso Digital

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A contemporary of figures such as Albert Camus, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, Edgar Morin was the last great bastion of the French philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries. The entry Deceased at the age of 104, Edgar Morin leaves French contemporary thinking orphaned was first published in Proceso Digital.