Chapter-length studies of seven of these books can be found in Fred Seddon’s An Introduction to the Philosophical Works of F. S. C. Northrop.
In 1962, he gathered some of the key participants from those conferences (including Warren Sturgis McCulloch and Donald MacCrimmon MacKay) at a Wenner Gren Foundation Symposium on the topic of The Determination of the Philosophy of a Culture.
He also attended the International Meetings, conferences on contemporary issues and interfaith dialogue, at the monastery of Toumliline in Morocco in the late 1950s.
[5] Northrop was personally acquainted with and close to a great number of leading figures in philosophy, politics, and science.
These included G. H. Hardy, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Hermann Weyl, Norbert Wiener, Mao Zedong, John Foster Dulles and Mohammed Iqbal, among many others.