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 vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Will Durant
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time (1970) 85 eksemplarer
The Story of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From Kant to William James and the American Pragmatists (2001) 33 eksemplarer
The Story of Philosophy, Vol. 1: From Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment (2004) 31 eksemplarer
Our Oriental Heritage: Part 1 - The Establishment of Civilization, Sumeria, Egypt, Babylonia, and Assyria (1935) 15 eksemplarer
The Story of Philosophy, Volume 1: From Plato to Bacon 10 eksemplarer
The foundations of civilization 10 eksemplarer
100 best books for an education 5 eksemplarer
Rousseau and Revolution: Part 4 - Johnson's England II, The Collapse of Feudal France (1967) 5 eksemplarer
The Age of Voltaire: Part 3 - The Advancement of Learning, The Attack on Christianity (1965) 4 eksemplarer
The Life of Greece: Part 3 - The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom, The Hellenistic Dispersion (1939) 4 eksemplarer
The Story of Philosophy, Updated and Revised: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers from Ptahhotep to… (2020) 4 eksemplarer
The Story of Civilization, 1-7 3 eksemplarer
Rousseau and Revolution: Part 1 - Prelude, France before the Deluge, The Catholic South I (1967) 3 eksemplarer
The Pleasures of Philosophy, Vol. 1 2 eksemplarer
Storia della civilta': la Grecia al tempo di Socrate 2 eksemplarer
Rousseau and Revolution: Part 2 - The Catholic South II, Islam and The Slavic East (1967) 2 eksemplarer
The Reformation: Part 3 - The Strangers in the Gate, Behind the Scenes, The Counter-Reformation (1957) 2 eksemplarer
The Age of Reason Begins: Part 3 - The Faiths Fight for Power II, The Tentatives of Reason (1961) 2 eksemplarer
The Story of Civilization, Vol II 2 eksemplarer
The Story of Civilization, 1-9 2 eksemplarer
A Guide to Spinoza 2 eksemplarer
قصة الحضارة (أوروبا الوسطى) 1 eksemplar
Das Leben Griechenlands 1 eksemplar
The Age of Napoleon: Part 3 - Britain 1 eksemplar
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time 1 eksemplar
Storia della civiltà 1 eksemplar
The History of Civilization, Part IV 1 eksemplar
The Story of Civilization, Part 1 1 eksemplar
The Story of Civilization, 5-6 1 eksemplar
Η περιπέτεια της φιλοσοφίας 1 eksemplar
The Age of Faith, Part 2 of 2 1 eksemplar
The Story of Civilization, 6-7 1 eksemplar
The Pleasures of Philosophy, Vol. 2 1 eksemplar
The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer 1 eksemplar
The History of Civilization [Volumes 1 - 11] 1 eksemplar
The Story of Philosophy: Francis Bacon 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة - ملخص 1 eksemplar
Filosofi 7-11-1 1 eksemplar
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit (25 von 32 Bdn.) 1 eksemplar
Anatole France: The Man and His Work 1 eksemplar
The Story of Civilization, 7-11 1 eksemplar
The Story of Civilization, 1-6 1 eksemplar
L' epoca della fede. To. 2, Arabi ed ebrei 1 eksemplar
World History (multi-volume) 1 eksemplar
A Program for America 1 eksemplar
The Story of Civilization, 3, 5-6 1 eksemplar
Tarihten Alınacak Dersler 1 eksemplar
Filosofi - Le opere 7-11-1 1 eksemplar
L'epoca d'oro della civiltà greca (saggio) 3-5-1 1 eksemplar
The Story of Philosophy: Schopenhauer 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة: روسو والثورة #1 1 eksemplar
Os Pensadores: A História da Filosofia,- 7ª Ed. 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأقصى الصين 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأقصى اليابان 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة: حياة اليونان #1 1 eksemplar
Le Lezioni della storia 3-5-1 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة: عصر فولتير #1 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة: عصر الإيمان #1 1 eksemplar
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأدنى 1 eksemplar
islam medeniyeti 1 eksemplar
Lood filosoofia ajaloost. IV-V 1 eksemplar
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant 1 eksemplar
Storia della civiltà 26 tomi 3-5-1,2,3 1 eksemplar
The Age of Faith, Part 1 of 2 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder — 133 eksemplarer
High Moment: Stories of Supreme Crises in the Lives of Great Men — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Durant, Will
- Juridisk navn
- Durant, William James
- Andre navne
- ول ديورانت
ויל דוראנט - Fødselsdato
- 1885-11-05
- Dødsdag
- 1981-11-07
- Begravelsessted
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
- Dødssted
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Bopæl
- North Adams, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
- Uddannelse
- Saint Peter's College (BA|1907)
Columbia University (Ph.D|1917) - Erhverv
- historian
writer
author
librarian - Relationer
- Durant, Ariel (wife)
- Organisationer
- Ferrer Modern School
Seton Hall University
Labor Temple School - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Pulitzer Prize (literature|1967)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
Golden Plate Award (1976) - Oplysning om flertydighed
- Please do NOT combine this page with the various forms of "Will and Ariel Durant". Single authors should never be combined with multiples. Thank you.
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The Story of Civilization by the Durants: Yea or Nay? i Non-Fiction Readers (december 2021)
Will Durant i Philosophy and Theory (juli 2010)
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