The Human Phenomenon, 2nd Revised ed. (Paperback)

from KerrvilleCate

de Chardin is going to be proven right in the next few years. His idea of human conciousness becoming the "noosphere" or the thought sphere of earth by combining and filling the earth is being talked and written about right now by very serious people.

from Schmerguls

827 The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin English translation by Bernard Wall (read 30 Oct 1965). I found this a memorable and significant book, but did not believe my comments on it would be memorable--so I did not record them!

from br77rino

A great, thoughtful, treatise on, well, mankind as a phenomenon of nature.

from wrmjr66

This is an overly convoluted work that tries to take theology and evolution and combine them in a philosophy that sees man continuing to develop into a union with the universe. It's much more sophisticated than anything like "Intelligent Design," and yet it relies too much on logical conjecture r...

from breadhat

I really tried to love this book, which contains a number of ideas that I find wacky but exciting. I'm sad to say that it was something of a letdown. The astonishing concepts are weighed down by unpalatable writing (or translating, possibly) and a truly strange style of argumentation. Teilhard's ...