Library Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Posthumous work · Essential works
The Human Phenomenon (The Phenomenon of Man)
Le Phénomène humain
His major work, presented as a 'purely phenomenological' essay. It covers Before Life (matter and its 'within'), Life (the biosphere and the law of complexity-consciousness), Thought (the threshold of reflection and the noosphere) and Survival, in which humanity, compressed on the closed surface of the planet, converges toward a personal centre, the Omega Point. An epilogue on the 'Christian phenomenon' identifies that centre with Christ. Its visionary prose fascinated millions of readers and exasperated scientists such as Peter Medawar.
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Authorship note
Written in Peking between 1938 and 1940 and revised until 1948; Rome refused permission to publish in 1944 and 1948. Volume I of the Œuvres de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Seuil, 1955), a posthumous edition prepared by the publication committee assembled by Jeanne Mortier, the holder of his manuscripts.
Editions and translations
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English
The Phenomenon of Man
Harper Perennial Modern Thought, 2008
Translation: Bernard Wall
ISBN 9780061632655
Introducción de Julian Huxley.
The Human Phenomenon
Sussex Academic Press, 2003
Translation: Sarah Appleton-Weber
ISBN 9781902210308
Traducción nueva y completa.
The Phenomenon of Man
Harper Perennial, 1976
Translation: Bernard Wall
ISBN 9780060904951
Español
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
El fenómeno humano
The Conscious LibraryEl fenómeno humano
Taurus, 1965
Primera edición española.
Français
Le Phénomène humain
Éditions du Seuil, 1970
ISBN 9782020005814
Deutsch
Der Mensch im Kosmos
C. H. Beck, 1999
ISBN 9783406455414
Other works by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- The Divine Milieu · 1957
- The Mass on the World · 1923
- The Heart of Matter · 1976
- The Christic · 1955
- Hymn of the Universe · 1961
- The Appearance of Man · 1956
- The Vision of the Past · 1957
- Man's Place in Nature · 1956
- The Future of Man · 1959
- Human Energy · 1962
- Activation of Energy · 1963
- Science and Christ · 1965
- Christianity and Evolution (How I Believe) · 1969
- Toward the Future · 1973
- Writings in Time of War · 1965
- Cosmic Life · 1916
- The Spiritual Power of Matter · 1919
- My Universe · 1924
- The Spirit of the Earth · 1931
- The Phenomenon of Spirituality · 1937
- Note on Some Possible Historical Representations of Original Sin · 1922
- The Mammals of the French Lower Eocene and their Deposits · 1922
- Early Man in China · 1941
- The Scientific Work · 1971
- The Making of a Mind · 1961
- Letters from a Traveller · 1956
- Letters from Egypt and from Hastings and Paris · 1963
- Intimate Letters · 1972
- The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan · 1993
- Journal · 1975
Sources
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Le Phénomène humain. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1955 (Œuvres, t. I). Texto en Wikisource.
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