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Author Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre.

Title The phenomenon of man / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ; with an introduction by Sir Julian Huxley ; [English translation by Bernard Wall].

Publication Info. New York : Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2008.
1959.

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  113 TEILHARD DE CHARDIN    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  113 TEILHARD DE CHARDIN    Check Shelf
Edition First Harper Perennial Modern Thought edition.
Description 319 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Note "First published in English in 1959 by Wm. Collins Sons & Co., Ltd., London, and Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated, New York"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The stuff of the universe -- The within of things -- The earth in its early stages -- The advent of life -- The expansion of life -- Demeter -- The birth of thought -- The deployment of the noosphere -- The modern earth -- The collective issue -- Beyond the collective : the hyper-personal -- The ultimate earth -- Epilogue: The Christian phenomenon -- Postcript: The essence of the phenomenon of man.
Summary A plea for synthesis of the scientific and the theological point of view of evolution, by a contemporary French Jesuit thinker. First in a projected series of his works.
Subject Cosmology.
Philosophical anthropology.
Evolution.
Cosmology. (OCoLC)fst00880600
Evolution. (OCoLC)fst00917265
Philosophical anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01060766
Added Title Phénomène humain. English
ISBN 9780061632655 (paperback)
0061632651 (paperback)
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