The phenomenon of man /
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ; with an introd. by Julian Huxley ; [English translation by Bernard Wall].
- New York: Harper, 1959.
- 318 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
Translation of Le phénomène humain.
Book one: Before life came -- The stuff of the universe -- The within of things -- The earth in its early stages -- Book two: Life -- The advent of life -- The expansion of life -- Demeter -- Book three: thought -- The birth of thought -- The deployment of the noosphere -- The modern earth -- Book four: Survival -- The collective issue -- Beyond the collective: the hyper-personal -- The ultimate earth -- The Christian phenomenon -- The essence of the phenomenon of man.
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.