Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a priest , paleontologist and geologist whose highly original publication, LE PHENOMENE HUMAIN, attracted world-wide attention when it was first published. He wrote of the beginnings of our planet, the emergence of life, the birth of thought and the development of socialization in order to give humankind the inner vision necessary to thrive in an expanding universe. The original translation into English contained many fundamental mistakes clouding our understanding of Teilhard de Chardin's vision. Sarah Appleton-Weber has based her new translation, which is endorsed by the Teilhard de Chardin Foundation (Paris), on her careful comparison of the four versions of the French text. Poet and scholar Appleton-Weber, who has closely studied Teilhard's essays, letters, and other writing, gives a consistent and coherent voice to this translation of Teilhard's book.
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This book has a magic quality you don't find in writing in the science world. This translation will in the future be the basic text for any serious study of Teilhard in the English language." -- Thomas Berry, co-author of The Universe Story. "Sarah Appleton-Weber has gifted English-speaking admirers of Teilhard and his thought with a superb new translation. Readers will find this new translation worth a fresh read. Appleton-Weber's introduction to the work opens to readers, including Teilhard scholars, the meaning and relevance not only of his vision but also of phrases and words that he used to help bring his vision into focus. Her introduction and copies of key diagrams used by Teilhard are of great value and make this new translation critical: it is of substantial value for communicating the vision of Teilhard." -- Zygon
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deep, scientific and provocative,
By
This review is from: Human Phenomenon: A New Edition and Translation of Le phenomene humain by Sarah Appleton-Weber (Paperback)
Years after having his ideas squelched by the Catholic Church, the posthumous publishing of the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is even to this day a remarkable work.
After having read this one negative review I had continued to slog my way through the Walls translation of 1959 "Phenomenon of Man" I had just about given up being able to really represent the ideas of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in my Master's thesis. However, I managed to stumble across a mention of this new edition, with a retranslation including a new title "The Human Phenomenon." I then read the review and was reluctant to change course. However, after finding a copy of this volume in my university library I realized I had wasted valuable time with the 1959 version. I should have been reading this all along. Including the missing and mistranslated sections makes all the difference, as well as including better punctuation and italicizing. For anyone interested in broadening their spiritual or scientific horizons, I highly recommend reading this version. It is truly eye-opening.
18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
New translation a dissappointment,
By A Customer
This review is from: Human Phenomenon: A New Edition and Translation of Le phenomene humain by Sarah Appleton-Weber (Paperback)
This new translation is welcome, yet it makes claims beyond its value. It is offered as a corrective to the serious deficiencies of the 1959 translation of Bernard Wall, although he is never acknowledge by name. Only a few illustrations are given of these serious deficiencies, but the man one concerns the title, where the Phenomenon of Man is said to be serious mistranslation. One observes how the word ?man? is judiciously avoided throughout, often making a sentence longer or awkward through this avoidance. In general, this new translation reads less clearly than Wall?s version. Sentences are often vague or awkward where in Wall they are sharp and clear. I recommend anyone to do a sentence by sentence comparison for themselves.Leaving aside the question of the merits of the translation itself, the claims made in the Forward and the Introduction embody an attitude foreign to that of Teilhard. The work is spoken of with high excitement for things it is believed to imply, but which it does not say. Teilhard insists that this Essay is strictly scientific and not philosophical or theological, yet the discussions in these introductions treat it as though it is, thus aligning it with precisely the misguided criticisms it received in 1959. There is even a tinge of New Ageism in them. One feels that all these comments are all unnecessary clutter, and that the original introduction of Julian Huxley is of far higher quality, to the point, and more in keeping with the actual concerns of Teilhard the scientist. In my view this new translation does not improve on Wall?s translation, and in many ways it is not as good. I was left rather disappointed.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
