Morin has achieved in this work one of the most brilliant scientific objectives: to return to man his unity, to do away with all the barriers that separate "man-culture" from "life-nature", and the latter from "physical-chemical ".
Death introduces the most radical and definitive rupture between man and animal. It can be said that man is the animal since he buries his dead, being at that moment when religious beliefs begin: the other world. Magic, witchcraft, spiritism, shamans, beliefs in the afterlife, in resurrection, in immortality, are born from the human attempt to solve the problem of death.
The sciences of man have systematically avoided the question. With surprising agility Morin approaches, starting from biology, the anthropological problem of death, the conceptions that primitive man had of it, its historical crystallizations and this contemporary "crisis of d...read more
