The Human Phenomenon: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 2nd Edition - Hardcover

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin; Sarah Appleton-Weber

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1902210298 ISBN 13: 9781902210292

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The Human Phenomenon by the priest, paleontologist, and geologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is his book of the Earth, a discovery and an epic journey to open the way out for humanity in a time of world conflict and to release the spirit of the Earth. As Virgil led Dante, so Teilhard guides his reader back in spacetime to experience the birth of our planet as it emprisons the human future in its globe and motion, then forward, through the emergence of life, the birth of thought and socialization, and the unique mode of human unfolding as humanity covers the whole planet in an entirely new membrane, the Noosphere.

About this title

Language Notes

Text: English
Original Language: French

Review

“Sarah Appleton-Weber has gifted English-speaking admirers of Teilhard and his thought with a superb new translation. Readers will find this new translation worth a fresh read. Appleton-Weber’s introduction to the work opens to readers, including Teilhard scholars, the meaning and relevance not only of his vision but also of phrases and words that he used to help bring his vision into focus. Her introduction and copies of key diagrams used by Teilhard are of great value and make this new translation critical: it is of substantial value for communicating the vision of Teilhard.”  —Zygon

“This book has a magic quality you don’t find in writing in the science world. This translation will in the future be the basic text for any serious study of Teilhard in the English language.”  —Thomas Berry, co-author, The Universe Story

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1902210298
• ISBN 13: 9781902210292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282