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Adventures of the mind : from the Saturday Evening Post / edited by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler ; introduction by Mark Van Doren.
LIBRA - Special CB425 .S27 1960
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Vintage book ; V-109.
- Vintage books ; V-109
- Standardized Title:
- Saturday evening post.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Ethics.
- Aesthetics.
- Civilization, Modern--20th century.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 306 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1960.
- Contents:
- An evolutionist looks at modern man / Loren Eiseley
- The misbehavioral sciences / Jacques Barzun
- The riddle of life / William S. Beck
- The lost dimension in religion / Paul Tillich
- The mystery of matter / J. Robert Oppenheimer
- The lessons of the past / Edith Hamilton
- Drugs that shape men's minds / Aldous Huxley
- The decline of heroes / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- The poet's vision / Edith Sitwell
- The end of empire / D.W. Brogan
- What makes basic research basic? / Hans Selye
- Art and life / Herbert Read
- When time began / Fred Hoyle
- How war began / Lewis Mumford
- The pleasures of music / Aaron Copland
- The varieties of human love / Martin Cyril D'Arcy
- Einstein's great idea / James R. Newman
- How words change our lives / S.I. Hayakawa
- The case for abstract art / Clement Greenberg
- The curse of conformity / Walter Gropius
- The expanding mental universe / Bertrand Russell.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is second printing, October 1961.
- Contains:
- Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965. Lost dimension in religion.
- OCLC:
- 26444779
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