Edgar Morin was born in Paris in 1921 Independent Political Actor, contemporary sociologist, founder of the so called "complex thought" is emeritus director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research, where he chairs the Science Committee and citizens. His work published in Spanish covers many avenues of exploration: Cinema, or the Imaginary Man (Seix Barral, 1961, 1975), The spirit of the time (1966), Self-criticism (1976), The ecology of technological civilization (1981) to exit the twentieth century (1982), Science with consciousness (1984), What is Totalitarianism (1985), method (1992), the lost Paradigm (1992), Earth-country (1993), The Man and Death (1994), Introduction to complex thinking (1994), On interdisciplinarity (1995), Sociology (1995), thinking Europe (1998).