Out of My Later Years

New York: Philosophical Library, 1950. First edition with "1" to copyright page. Hardcover. Fine in in near fine price-clipped jacket in archival mylar. Very crisp. Octavo on grey and red jacket; viii, 282 pages: portrait; 23 cm; index. Contains Einstein's views on science, public affairs, science and life, personalities, and the Jewish people. Primary source material. ¶
Contents: Convictions and beliefs -- Self-portrait (1936) -- Ten fateful years (1939) -- Moral decay (1937) -- Message for posterity (1938) -- On freedom (1940) -- Morals and emotions (1938) -- Science and religion (I - 1939; II - 1941) -- On education (1936) -- Science -- The theory of relativity (1949) -- E=MC² (1946) -- Time, space and gravitation (1948) -- Physics and reality (1936) -- General consideration concerning the method of science -- Mechanics and the attempts to base all physics upon it -- The field concept -- The theory of relativity -- Quantum theory and the fundamentals of physics -- Relativity theory and corpuscles -- Summary -- The fundaments of theoretical physics (1940) -- The common language of science (1941) -- The laws of science and the laws of ethics (1950) -- An elementary derivation of the equivalence of mass and energy (1946) -- Public affairs -- Why socialism? (1949) -- The negro question (1946) -- Science and society (1935) -- Towards a world government (1946) -- The way out (1946) -- On receiving the one world award (1948) -- Science and civilization (1933) -- A message to intellectuals (1948) -- Open letter to the general assembly of the United Nations (1947) -- Dr. Einstein's mistaken notions - an open letter from Sergei Vavilov, A. N. Frumkin, A. F. Joffe, and N. N. Semyonov (1947) -- A reply to the Soviet scientists (1948) -- Science and life -- For an organization of intellectual workers (1945) -- "Was Europe a success?" (1934) -- At a gathering for freedom of opinion (1936) -- Atomic war or peace (I - 1945; II - 1947) -- The war is won but peace is not (1945) -- The menace of mass destruction (1947) -- The schools and the problem of peace (1934) -- On military service (1934) -- Military intrusion in science (1947) -- The military mentality -- International security (1933) -- Personalities -- Isaac Newton (1942) -- Johannes Kepler (1949) -- Marie Curie in memoriam (1935) -- Max Planck in memoriam (1948) -- Paul Langevin in memoriam (1947) -- Walther Nernst in memoriam (1942) -- Paul Ehrenfest in memoriam (1934) -- Mahatma Gandhi (1939) -- Carl von Ossietzky (1946) -- My people -- Why do they hate the Jews? (1938) -- Just what is a Jew? -- Where oppression is a stimulus -- The dispersal of European Jewry (1948) -- Let's not forget (1934) -- Unpublished preface to a blackbook (1945) -- The goal of human existence (1943) -- Our debt to Zionism (1938) -- To the heroes of the battle of the Warsaw ghetto (1944) -- Before the monument to the martyred Jews of the Warsaw ghetto (1948) -- The calling of the Jews (1936) -- Moses Maimonides (1935) -- Stephen Wise (1949) -- To the University of Jerusalem (1949) -- The American Council for Judaism (1945) -- The Jews of Israel (1949).

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