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Ascent Of Man
The book has been translated by the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters
Lauded by critics and devoured by countless readers as a companion to the acclaimed PBS series, this work traces the development of science as an expression of the special gifts that characterize man and make him preeminent among animals.
Bronowski’s exciting, splendidly illustrated investigation offers a new perspective not just on science, but on civilization itself.
The title alludes to The Descent of Man, the second book on evolution by Charles Darwin.
Over the series’ 13 episodes, Bronowski travelled around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science.
It was commissioned specifically to complement Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation (1969), in which Clark argued that art reflected and was informed by the major driving forces in cultural evolution.
Bronowski wrote in his 1951 book The Commonsense of Science: “It has been one of the most destructive modern prejudices that art and science are different and somehow incompatible interests”.
Both series were commissioned by David Attenborough, then controller of BBC Two, whose colleague Aubrey Singer had been astonished by Attenborough prioritising an arts series given his science background.
Ascent Of Man
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