Teilhard's Vision of the Past: The Making of a Method

by Robert O'Connell

Book Overview

The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has been characterized as metaphysics, poetry, and mysticism-virtually everything except what its author claimed it was: a "purely scientific m moir." Professor O'Connell here follows up on a nest of clues, uncovered first in an early unpublished essay, then in the series of essays contained principally in The Vision of the Past. Those clues all point to Teilhard's intimate familiarity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823210901
• ISBN13: 9780823210909
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"