Reflections on our age : Lectures delivered at the opening session of UNESCO at the Sorbonne University Paris / introduction by David Hardman, parliamentary secretary to the ministry of education; foreword by Stephen Spender.
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TextPublication details: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 1949.Description: 346 pages ; 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - CB 5 .R4 1949
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Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | The Karl H. Niebyl Collection | CB 5 .R4 1949 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | NPML21060004 |
Introduction / David Hardman --
Foreword / Stephen Spender --
Culture. 1: Reflections on an apocalyptic age / Emmanuel Mounier --
2: The intellectual and action / Pierre Bertaux --
3: The claims of philosophy / Professor A. J. Ayer --
4: The responsibility of the writer / Jean-Paul Sartre --
5: Man and artistic culture / André Malraux --
6: The many and the few / Louis Aragon --
7: Indian culture / Sir Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan --
8: The influence of Arab civilization on French culture / Professor Louis Massignon --
9: Spanish culture / Jean Cassou --
10: Greek culture / Soloris Skipis --
11: The plight of the visual arts / Herbert Read --
Science. 12: Introductory lecture / Professor F. Joliot-Curie --
13: The submarine underworld / Hans Pettersson --
14: The Chinese contribution to science and technology / Professor J. Needham --
15: The physiology of the nervous system / Professor Ozorio De Almeida --
16: Genetics / Professor T. O. Caspersson --
17: Altamira and Lascaux / Abbé Breuil --
18: Atomic power / A. H. Compton --
Education.19: Education at a crossroads / Howard E. Wilson --
20: International aspects of education / Professor C. M. Bowra --
21: Conditions necessary for the success of UNESCO / William G. Carr --
22: The efficiency of the Chinese language / Yuen Ren Chao --
23: A re-definition of 'progress' / Doctor Julian Huxley --
These lectures were delivered at the opening session of the UNESCO conference, at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, during December, 1946.
"The essays in this volume are based on a series of public lectures given in Paris in November and December 1946, in connection with the first General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). These lectures were given for the most part by speakers who did not belong to the organization of UNESCO, partly to interest the public of Paris in the main themes of education, science and culture, partly to enable some of the greatest authorities in the world to take up attitudes toward the projects of the most ambitious organization for helping cultural relations all over the world which the world has eve seen. They serve to show the things, the concrete material and the living ideas which are the concern of an organization whose name might suggest merely abstract generalization." -- from the foreword by Stephen Spender
"What is most valuable here is the free expression of the attitudes of independent intellectual workers towards an intellectual organization. For ultimately this organization -- UNESCO -- will depend on independent minds having a critical attitude towards it.... " --- from the foreword by Stephen Spender
From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.
This resource contains lectures translated from the original language, including French and Chinese.
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