The Great ideas today, 1963
By: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001; Wolff, Peter, 1923-; Muller, Herbert Joseph, 1905-; Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963; Arendt, Hannah; Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965; Brown, Harrison, 1917-1986; Bellow, Saul; Engel, Leonard, 1916-1964; Brodney, Kenneth; Randall, John Herman, 1899-1980; Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974; Denney, Reuel, 1913-1995; Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc
Publisher: W. Benton
Published: 1963
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
Subjects: Astronautics and civilization; Exploration
Notes: Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler, editors-in-chief; Peter C. Wolff, executive editor.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. A symposium on space. Has man's conquest of space increased or diminished his stature? / Herbert J. Muller, Aldous Huxley, Hannah Arendt, Paul Tillich, Harrison Brown; title: Part II. An essay on time. The tempo of history : an analysis / by the editors; title: Part III. The year's developments in the arts and sciences. Literature / Saul Bellow ; Biological sciences and medicine / Leonard Engel and Kenneth Brodney ; Philosophy and religion / John Herman Randall, Jr. ; Physical sciences and technology / Edward U. Condon ; Social sciences and law / Reuel Denney; title: Part IV. Additions to the Great Books library. Death in Venice / Thomas Mann ; Existentialism / Jean-Paul Sartre ; Essay on population / Robert Malthus; title: Part V. Additions to the Syntopicon.