Library Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Later compilation
The Vision of the Past
La Vision du Passé
Texts on transformism, orthogenesis, the irreversibility of evolution and hominisation, among them 'Le Paradoxe transformiste' (1925). It documents how he defended evolution within the Church decades before the Church accepted it.
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Authorship note
Volume III of the Œuvres de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Seuil, 1957), a posthumous edition prepared by the publication committee assembled by Jeanne Mortier, the holder of his manuscripts. It gathers essays from 1913 to 1955 on evolution.
Editions and translations
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English
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Vision of the Past
The Conscious LibraryThe Vision of the Past
Collins, 1966
Translation: J. M. Cohen
ISBN 9780002158510
Français
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
La Vision du passé
The Conscious LibraryLa Vision du passé
Éditions du Seuil, 1957
ISBN 9782020028790
Other works by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- The Human Phenomenon (The Phenomenon of Man) · 1955
- 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
- 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
- Wikisource en francés, «Auteur:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin» (relación de las Œuvres de Seuil, 1955–1976, y de la correspondencia).
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