Editore: New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966, 1966
Da: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Platt, John Rader, 1918-. The step to man. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966, 216pp., good dust-jacket, a few words rubbed off with price label removal, with light wear around edges and small tear at bottom of spine, very good brown cloth, light foxing on top foredge. If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. Galsworthy // Is man moving toward a new kind of life? Will the near future witness a unique transformation in the human condition, a transformation that will enable man to understand his destiny and to shape it? These questions, and their vital and absorbing answers, lie at the heart of The Step to Man. This fascinating new book is the work of a biophysicist who is, at present, Associate Director of the Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan. In it, he has drawn together a series of original, related essays on the evolving social and intellectual nature of man. The essays are concerned with what man is - and what he may become - and they touch upon almost every branch of human endeavor: science, education, history, social progress, philosophy, and literature. Offering us a fresh, dynamic overview of today's complex technological society, The Step to Man is a book that should be read by everyone interested in our changing evolutionary development.