JB: I wrote a book called the Identity of Man. I never saw the cover of the English edition until the book reached me in print. And yet the artist had understood exactly what was in my mind, by putting on the cover a drawing of the brain and the Mona Lisa, one on top of the other Selected Extracts


First publication dates are given parenthesis

  • The Poet's Defence (1939)
  • A Man Without a Mask (1944)
  • The Common Sense of Science (1951)
  • The Face of Violence (1954)
  • Science and Human Values (1958)
  • The Identity of Man (1965)
  • The Ascent of Man (1973)


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