as recorded by Lucien Price

David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, copyright 1954

Alfred North Whitehead's interests encompassed entire worlds, from philosophy to mathematics and general science. Here, recorded in Whitehead's own home, are some of the landmarks, signposts, and milestones of that extraordinary mind.

Whitehead's approach to life and science provides a compass for the modern world. In these pages, the immense reaches of his thought--in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art, and ethics--are gathered and edited by the writer Lucien Price. The scene, Harvard from 1932-47 (with flashbacks to London, Cambridge, and his native Ramsgate in Kent); the cast, men and women, often eminent, who join him for these penetrating verbal forays. The subjects range from the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of humankind for the past thirty centuries.