At the peril of ideas: the great questions of our time – Dialogue Edgar Morin and Tariq Ramadan

Unexpected encounter: the thinker of complexity facing the reforming theologian philosopher. The agnostic versus the believer. The descendant of Marranos facing the son of Egyptian exiles. The “frequentable” Edgar Morin facing the “infrequentable” Tariq Ramadan…

Far from the clichés attached to their names, they are above all two intellectuals anchored in their time and in their culture, two declared Europeans who are looking for a common "Way" here, evoke their years of training and debate, with the complicity of Claude-Henry du Edge, on education, science, art, secularism, women's and minority rights, the new Middle East, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, democracy and fundamentalism , globalization and forgiveness…

Two conceptions of the world and of faith, two philosophies of life which only ask to be listened to.

About the Author

Edgar Morin

Director Emeritus of Research at the CNRS, Edgar Morin is the author of numerous works on sociology (La Rumeur d'Orléans, 1969), philosophy (La Méthode, Seuil, 1981-2006), but also autobiographical accounts (Mon Paris, my memory, Fayard, 2013) and chronicles (At the rhythm of the World, Presses du Châtelet, 2014).

Tariq Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan is Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and Director of the Center for Research in Islamic Legislation and Ethics. He is the author, in particular, of Islam, radical reform, My intimate conviction, Islam and the Arab awakening, Islam and Muslims (Presses du Châtelet, 2008 to 2014).