File 11 - "Selected Essays - Volume 1, Part 2"

2 files (2 parts)

Comprises draft contents pages for chapters 4 - 6 in a volume of selected essays by Bronowski, and annotated copies of the essays.

Chapter 4 "Art and Literature in a Scientific Age" contains: 'Order Among Disorder' (copy of conference address on 'Order and Disorder'); 'Monsters and Supermen' (from 'John O'London's Weekly' 4 Aug 1950); 'The Nature of Art' (preface to 1966 edition of 'The Poet's Defence'); 'Invention and Imagination' (made up of 'The Mystical Quest of William Blake', 'The Tragedy of Humphry Davy' first broadcast in the BBC Third Programme 5 Nov 1946, 'The Dignified Revolutionary' on Thomas Jefferson and 'Prophetic Justice'); 'The Shape of Things' (from 'Industrial Design' and 'Arts and Architecture' both Feb 1957); and 'The Discovery of Form' [from 'Structure in Art and in Science' edited by Gyorgy Kepes].

Chapter 5 "The Search for Truth", part 1 "On Being an Intellectual" contains: 'The Search for Truth' (from 'Educational Review' Feb 1959); 'Knowledge and Education' (Presidential Address from Harrogate conference of the Library Association, Sep 1957); 'Darwinism' (introduction from 'Darwinism & The Study of Society' edited by Michael Banton); 'The Educated Man in 1984' (from 'Science' Apr 1956); 'The Place of Science' (from 'The Bennington Review', 1965); and 'On Being an Intellectual' (address at opening of the Clark Science Center at Smith College, May 1967).

Chapter 5 "The Search for Truth", part 2 "As a Matter of Fact" contains: 'Mathematics is a Language' (combination from 'The Observer, 25 Jan 1959 and 'The New Statesman and Nation' 24 Dec 1949): 'Sizes of Infinity' (unpublished, Dec 1953); 'Operations Research' ('Operations Research as an example of the contemporary evolution of science' book review of 'Methods of Operations Research' by Philip Morse and George Kimball); 'Can Machines "Think"?' (review of 'Design for a Brain' by W Ross Ashby in 'The Observer' 30 Nov 1952); 'The Concept of Cybernetics' ('Has the concept of cybernetics lived up to its early promise?' book review of 'Brains, Machines and Mathematics' by Michael Arbib in 'Scientific American' Jul 1964); 'The Birth of the Universe' ('The Birth of Matter' in 'The Observer' 5 Dec 1954); 'The Expanding Universe' ('The unusual and seductive universe of the late cosmologist E A Milne' book review of 'Modern Cosmology and the Christian idea of God' by E A Milne); 'The Clock Paradox' (from 'Scientific American' Feb 1963), 'Dr Einstein's Unities' (from 'The Observer' 14 Jun 1953); 'One-sided Atoms' (1957); 'The ABC of the Atom'; and 'The Effects of the Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki' (report, 1946).

Chapter 5 "The Search for Truth", part 3 "A Sense of the Future" contains: 'A Sense of the Future' (from 'The Listener' BBC magazine 3 Jun 1948); 'Science and Survival' (from 'The Thinker's Digest' Spring 1949); 'Mankind at the Crossroads' (from 'The Listener' BBC magazine, 4 Jul 1949); 'A Proposal for Atomic Peace' (from 'Discovery, Mar 1951); 'East is West, Take Over the Future' (from 'Punch' 7 May 1958); 'The Shape of the Future' (from the 'Royal Society of Health Journal' May-Jun 1962); and 'Learning of Live in the Year 2000' (from 'Reynolds News, 21 Sep 1958).

Chapter 6 "Living Through an Intellectual Revolution", part 1 "The Values of Science" contains: 'The Dilemma of the Scientist' (from 'The Listener' 1 Jul 1954); 'A Moral for an Age of Plenty' (from 'Adventures of the Mind'); 'Responsibilities of Scientist and Public' (from the 'Atomic Scientists' Journal' Sep 1955); 'The Conscience of a Scientist' (from 'Eleven Scientists Speak', New York Academy of Scientists); and 'The Values of Science' (from 'The Rationalist Annual, 1960).

Chapter 6 "Living Through an Intellectual Revolution", part 2 "The Fulfilment of Man" contains: 'Living Through an Intellectual Revolution' (from 'The Listener' 1952 and the Journal of the American Association of University Women, May 1963); 'The Discovery of Self' (keynote address from National Convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association, 12 Apr 1965); 'Science is Human' (from 'The Humanist Frame' [book]); 'The Human Values' (part of 'What can we believe?'); 'Where Do We Go From Here?' (review of 'Continuities in Cultural Evolution' by Margaret Mead and 'The Future of Man' by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 'The New York Review of Books' 25 Feb 1965); and 'The Fulfilment of Man' (45th Conway Memorial Lecture).

Part 1 covers up to Chapter 5, part 2.

Part 2 covers from Chapter 5, part 3.

This file was originally in a ring binder.

There was no "volume 1, part 1" of selected essays in the Bronowski Collection at Jesus College Cambridge when cataloguing.