The World Sensorium. The Social Embryology of World Federation.

1st ed., octavo, original cloth boards with gilt title to spine, dustjacket, pp 253. Section of upper and lower dustjacket missing, smaller chips along top edge. Endpapers toned, no marks or inscriptions to book. Near-fine condition in good dustjacket, repaired and protected. Oliver Reiser (1896 - 1974) was a self-described cosmic humanist and taught philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1924-1966. One of Reiser's former students wrote of him that "in his writing the intention was no less than to combine all knowledge into coherence." Reiser used the term "cosmic humanism", influenced by the work of Einstein, to define what he termed a pantheist philosophy of science. Reiser's correspondents included Einstein, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. "The World Sensorium" discusses scientific humanism, 'morphogenetic fields of force', extra-sensory perception, the emergence of the 'World Brain'. social reform, and activating the World Brain to achieve world peace. "The coming planetary civilization which Dr. Reiser envisions would represent the higher synthesis uniting the philosophy and religion of the East (India and China) with the science and technology of the West" (dustjacket, inner flap).…