Name: Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris - The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century
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Author: Edgar Morin
ISBN: 9781845192747

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Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris - The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century

Type

Physical Book

Author

Edgar Morin

Publisher

Liverpool University Press

Language

English

Pages

330

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x2 cm

Weight

0.50 kg.

ISBN

1845192745

ISBN13

9781845192747

Synopsis "Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris - The Story of a Sephardic Family in the Twentieth Century"

Edgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this 'holographic history' Vidal's story, and that of his family, carries within it the flowering, decline, and death of Jewish culture in Spain, the passage from Empires to Nation States, the complex relations between Jews and Gentiles, between East and West, and, ultimately, the history of the twentieth century itself. Morin's work ranges from the great sweep of global historical events to the everyday details of individual lives, letters, feelings, reflections, and experiences. Vidal was born in 1894 in the Ottoman Empire's great Macedonian port. His great-grandfather came from Tuscany and spoke Italian. His mother tongue was fifteenth-century Spanish. He learned French and German as a child. When he was an adolescent, he dreamed of living in France; he was deported there as a prisoner, and then liberated by the French Prime Minister. He lived through the Balkan wars, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and two World Wars. Vidal cannot be isolated from his family. And as Edgar Morin explains, "this book also tells the stories of the men and women in his immediate family When, as his son, I inevitably come into his story... I describe him as objectively as possible. The reverence that inspired me did not call for a work of edification; it implied that I should attempt to write a truthful book. For this reason, the book is not in the least respectful, or at least not in the usual sense of the word. Vidal felt that loving someone meant being able to tease him. The author of these lines, who has inherited something of this trait, does not think it disrespectful to tease or make fun of the people he loves."

Edgar Morin

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Edgar Morin (París, 1921), nacido como Edgar Nahum, es un destacado filósofo y sociólogo francés, figura clave del pensamiento complejo y la transdisciplinariedad. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, participó activamente en la Resistencia francesa. Fue investigador en el CNRS (Centro Nacional de Investigación Científica) de Francia desde 1950.

Su obra revolucionaria, sintetizada en El Método (iniciado en 1977), propone superar la visión fragmentada del conocimiento, integrando saberes biológicos, sociales y humanísticos. Crítico de los medios de comunicación y defensor de un humanismo planetario, ha explorado la crisis del individuo moderno. Con más de 100 años, sigue vigente como crítico social y defensor de la democracia, la educación y la cultura.

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