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Will Durant (1885–1981)

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Will Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts on November 5, 1885. He received an undergraduate degree at St. Peter's College in New Jersey and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. His first book, Philosophy and the Social Problem, was published in 1917. His other works include The visa mer Story of Philosophy, The Mansions of Philosophy, and the ten-volume The Story of Civilization. By the time the seventh volume was published in 1961, his wife Ariel Durant was listed as a coauthor for her diligent assistance on the project. In 1968 they received the Pulitzer Prize for Rousseau and Revolution. The husband and wife team also wrote A Dual Autobiography in 1977. He died on November 7, 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Will Durant

De stora filosoferna : deras liv och deras lära (1926) — Författare — 4,210 exemplar
The Life of Greece (1939) 1,805 exemplar
The Lessons of History (1968) 1,742 exemplar
Our Oriental Heritage (1935) — Författare — 1,736 exemplar
Caesar and Christ (1944) 1,728 exemplar
The Reformation (1957) 1,658 exemplar
The Renaissance (1953) 1,596 exemplar
The Age of Faith (1950) 1,549 exemplar
The Age of Louis XIV (1963) 1,448 exemplar
Rousseau and Revolution (1967) 1,431 exemplar
The Age of Voltaire (1965) — Författare — 1,430 exemplar
The Age of Reason Begins (1961) 1,426 exemplar
The Age of Napoleon (1975) 1,304 exemplar
The Complete Story of Civilization (1963) 1,145 exemplar
The pleasures of philosophy (1929) 321 exemplar
On the Meaning of Life (2005) 64 exemplar
The case for India (1930) 34 exemplar
Great Men of Literature (1931) 11 exemplar
Der alte Orient und Indien (1979) 10 exemplar
Adventures in Philosophy (2008) 9 exemplar
Adventures in Genius (1931) 8 exemplar
Das frühe Mittelalter (1978) 6 exemplar
Outlines of Philosophy. (1962) 4 exemplar
Filosofia da Vida 3 exemplar
The Reformation Part 1 Of 3 (1997) 2 exemplar
The Renaissance Part 2 Of 2 (1995) 2 exemplar
Cezar i Hrist 1 exemplar
The Case for India 1 exemplar
Romaveldi - Vol II 1 exemplar
قصة الفلسفة (2016) 1 exemplar
Romaveldi - Vol I 1 exemplar
Filosofi 7-11-1 1 exemplar
La edad de la fe. Tomo II (1970) 1 exemplar
OBRAS FILOSOFICAS V (1969) 1 exemplar
Socialism and anarchism, (1914) 1 exemplar
Lood filosoofia ajaloost (1998) 1 exemplar
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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Durant, William James
Andra namn
DURANT, William James
DURANT, Will
Födelsedag
1885-11-05
Avled
1981-11-07
Begravningsplats
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Dödsort
Los Angeles, California, USA
Bostadsorter
North Adams, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Utbildning
Saint Peter's College (1907)
Cambridge University (1917)
Yrken
historian
writer
author
librarian
Relationer
Durant, Ariel (wife)
Organisationer
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
Ferrer Modern School
Priser och utmärkelser
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Pulitzer Prize (literature|1967)
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Diskussioner

The Story of Civilization by the Durants: Yea or Nay? i Non-Fiction Readers (december 2021)
Will Durant i Philosophy and Theory (juli 2010)

Recensioner

The near century between the death of John Calvin and the Council to Trent to the end of the Thirty Years War saw first religious intolerance and religious wars range across the continent until in the end politics trumped everything like it always does. The Age of Reason Begins is the seventh volume of The Story of Civilization series by Will & Ariel Durant as Protestants fight one another and both fight Catholics before eventually politics overrules everything and people begin to ignore religion.

This volume continues a trend of transitions that defined Early Modern Era highlighting a single nation, then the continent, and finally beginning of the return of “reason” over “religion”. The Durants began the rise of Great Britain from the reign of Elizabeth I to the death of Charles I as it transitioned from warring individual nations to nations united political though with significant differences that still needed to be worked out. Next, they followed the transition across the continent of various religious wars that saw either the rise or follow of great powers from prominence that ultimately went from how God was worshiped but what was politically more important. Then they completed the volume with the rise of science and slow return of now religious inspired philosophy. Even though the Durants focused on philosophy and scientific advances in the last 100 pages of the book, they did not neglect cultural developments in literature to theater to music to the development of scientific thought, it was in this area that one could tell Will Durant was enjoying writing. After three volumes in which Will Durant had to focus on religion more than he liked this volume a reader of the series could tell change in Will’s writing that could by a result of Ariel or Will love of philosophy and science.

The Age of Reason Begins is a transitional volume of Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization not only in the transition into the Early Modern Era but also the involvement of his wife Ariel as a cowriter.
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mattries37315 | 8 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2024 |
Dramatic and opinionated review of the great thought-leaders of the Western canon. Misinterpreted Hellenistic philosophy schools, in my mind. Nevertheless, presents history and philosophical questions with a flourish and entertaining style.
 
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KKBucher | 29 andra recensioner | Feb 13, 2024 |
Classic Durant. Exhaustively detailed, delightfully opinionated.
 
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Huba.Library | 9 andra recensioner | Feb 5, 2024 |
Classic Durant. Exhaustively detailed, delightfully opinionated.
 
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256
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Medlemmar
26,370
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#793
Betyg
4.0
Recensioner
198
ISBN
368
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