Man and His World/Terres des hommes : : The Noranda Lectures, Expo 67/Les Conferences Noranda/L'Expo 67 / / The Noranda Lectures/ Expo 67.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: The Noranda Lectures/ Expo 67,
• MitwirkendeR: Armand, Louis,; Basov, N. G.,; Bondi, Hermann,; Burnet, Macfarlarte,; Casimir, H. B. G.,; Foster, G. B.,; Friedrich, Carl J.,; Gunnar Myrdal, Karl,; Hogg, Helen S.,; Hossein Nasr, Seyyed,; Houphouët-Boigny, Félix,; Katchalski, Ephraim,; Kinzel, Augustus B.,; Kourilsky, Raoul,; Leroi-Gourhan, André,; Lôwith, Karl,; Martin, Eric,; Martin, Paul,; Pauling, Linus,; Petersen, K. Helveg,; Robson, William A.,; Singh, Khushwant,; Spaak, Paul-Henri,; Troitskaya, Valerie,; Ward, Barbara,; Wilson, J. Tuzo,; Wood Jr., Barry,; Yukawa, Hideki,; Zevi, Bruno,; de Sèze, Stanislas,; Šorm, František,
• TeilnehmendeR: Hogg, Helen.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (452 p.)

The fruits of a unique cultural exchange are brought together in this unusual book. Twenty-eight of the most eminent men and women of our generation – philosophers, historians, and scientists from nineteen countries – here discuss what they consider the most vital issues of our day. Paul-Henri Spaak, Barbara Ward, Gunnar Mydral, Linus Pauling, and many others participated in the Noranda lecture series at Expo 67 in Montreal, and each is concerned here with a special aspect of Expo's theme: Man and His World. The approaches to the theme are as varied as the backgrounds of the speakers. Some of the essays give a revealing and optimistic description of the national and international efforts to ensure a future for mankind; others, less optimistic, stress the increasing insanity of the world and draw attention to the poverty, starvation, hatred, waste, and war which destroy what creative men have built. One group of papers deals with the idea of progress. André Leroi Gourhan offers a panoramic description of man's cultural evolution and sketches the vast possibilities of future development; Karl Löwith questions the very notion of progress and observes that much "progressive" development has resulted in nothing but destruction; Félix Houphouët-Boigny, president of the Ivory Coast Republic, describes progress in one section of the world – Africa, and the Ivory Coast in particular. Other lectures deal with such diverse topics as the proper role of government, the modern scientist, formal and informal aspects of education, the history of architecture, recent biological contributions of chemistry, the population explosion, new advances in physics, and the world as a separate entity from man. "The world as universe is not made by man," Professor Löwith reminds us. "It is there, even without us, existing for and by itself." Originally sponsored by Noranda Mines Ltd., the lectures attracted wide attention at the time of their delivery and again later when some of them were broadcast on radio and television. Collected in this book, they offer a distillation of some of the most significant thinking of today – clear and cogent presentations of ideas that have won Nobel prizes for some of their creators and international recognition for all. In her Introduction, Helen Hogg writes, "It is a book to be sipped and savoured, to be dipped into again and again. Such an approach will enable the reader best to appreciate the penetrating commentaries of some of the world's greatest figures."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword/Avant-propos -- Contents -- Introduction -- Préface -- The lectures -- Les conférences -- Comment faire régner la paix dans le monde -- An Economist's Vision of a Sane World -- A New History -- Orient Pearl in the World Oyster -- Who is Man? - The Perennial Answer of Islam -- Terre des hommes préhistoriques -- Progress: A Fatality -- Unité et développement -- Man and His Government -- The Role and Conduct of Public Enterprise -- Industrial Research: Why, How, and What -- La Diffusion de la connaissance technique, impetus de progrès -- New Trends in Education -- Architecture 1967: Progress or Regression? -- Science and the World of the Future -- How to Fool the Cell (Antimetabolites and Analogues) -- The Role of Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Determining Life Processes -- Immunological Tolerance: Its Bearing on Organ Transplantation and Autoimmune Disease -- Report to Metchnikoff -- Un Siècle de rhumatologie: progrès des connaissances sur les problèmes du rhumatisme de 1867 à 1967 -- La Médecine est une science de régulation -- Le Progrès et la santé de l'homme -- Creative Thinking in Science -- Quantum Electronics -- Low Temperatures and Their Applications -- Terre des hommes -- We and the Sun -- Cosmology, Enduring and Changing Features