Edgar Morin, Close-Ups No 82, 2008/1 - pagesPages 5 to 9Close-UpsBy Nicole LapierrePages 11 to 48Sociology of the PresentBy Bernard PaillardPages 49 to 70The Long Voyage of “L’Homme et la mort”By André BurguièrePages 71 to 86Facing the SphinxBy Edwy PlenelPages 87 to 93“The Spirit of Time”By Claudine Haroche, Georges VigarelloPages 95 to 106The Jewish PortionBy Nicole LapierrePages 107 to 111A MeteorBy Raymond BellourPages 113 to 117The Complex Job of the Contemporary ArchitectBy Alain FarelPages 119 to 133Memory TestsBy Jean-Louis JeannellePages 135 to 141Changing an Uncertain World with Good LooksBy Alfredo Pena-VegaPages 143 to 159For a Sociology in the Manner of La MéthodeBy Pascal RoggeroPages 161 to 169Wisdom and FollyBy Claude FischlerPages 171 to 188The Left, from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century: For an Ideological and Ecological Double Self-CriticismBy Gil Delannoi, Edgar Morin