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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 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

Store tænkere (1926) — Forfatter — 4,210 eksemplarer
The Life of Greece (1939) 1,805 eksemplarer
The Lessons of History (1968) 1,742 eksemplarer
Our Oriental Heritage (1935) — Forfatter — 1,736 eksemplarer
Caesar and Christ (1944) 1,728 eksemplarer
The Reformation (1957) 1,658 eksemplarer
The Renaissance (1953) 1,596 eksemplarer
The Age of Faith (1950) 1,549 eksemplarer
The Age of Louis XIV (1963) 1,448 eksemplarer
Rousseau and Revolution (1967) 1,431 eksemplarer
The Age of Voltaire (1965) — Forfatter — 1,430 eksemplarer
The Age of Reason Begins (1961) 1,426 eksemplarer
The Age of Napoleon (1975) 1,304 eksemplarer
The Complete Story of Civilization (1963) 1,145 eksemplarer
The pleasures of philosophy (1929) 321 eksemplarer
On the Meaning of Life (2005) 64 eksemplarer
The case for India (1930) 34 eksemplarer
Great Men of Literature (1931) 11 eksemplarer
Der alte Orient und Indien (1979) 10 eksemplarer
Adventures in Philosophy (2008) 9 eksemplarer
Adventures in Genius (1931) 8 eksemplarer
Philosophy and the Social Problem (2013) 6 eksemplarer
Das frühe Mittelalter (1978) 6 eksemplarer
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit (1993) 5 eksemplarer
Outlines of Philosophy. (1962) 4 eksemplarer
Filosofia da Vida 3 eksemplarer
Caesar And Christ Part 1 Of 2 (1994) 2 eksemplarer
The Age Of Napoleon Part 3 Of 3 (2000) 2 eksemplarer
Caesar And Christ Part 2 Of 2 (1994) 2 eksemplarer
The Reformation Part 1 Of 3 (1997) 2 eksemplarer
Verdens kulturhistorie, bind 1-32 (1969) 2 eksemplarer
The Renaissance Part 2 Of 2 (1995) 2 eksemplarer
Cezar i Hrist 1 eksemplar
The Case for India 1 eksemplar
Romaveldi - Vol II 1 eksemplar
قصة الفلسفة (2016) 1 eksemplar
Romaveldi - Vol I 1 eksemplar
Filosofi 7-11-1 1 eksemplar
La edad de la fe. Tomo II (1970) 1 eksemplar
OBRAS FILOSOFICAS V (1969) 1 eksemplar
The Life Of Greece Part 2 Of 2 (1994) 1 eksemplar
Socialism and anarchism, (1914) 1 eksemplar
Lood filosoofia ajaloost (1998) 1 eksemplar
islam medeniyeti 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Los Angeles 200: A Bicentennial Celebration (1980) — Forord — 35 eksemplarer
The Works of Schopenhauer (1928) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver28 eksemplarer
The American Legion Reader (1953) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer

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Juridisk navn
Durant, William James
Andre navne
DURANT, William James
DURANT, Will
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 (1907)
Cambridge University (1917)
Erhverv
historian
writer
author
librarian
Relationer
Durant, Ariel (wife)
Organisationer
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
Ferrer Modern School
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Pulitzer Prize (literature|1967)
Oplysning om flertydighed
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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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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 andre anmeldelser | 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 andre anmeldelser | Feb 13, 2024 |
Classic Durant. Exhaustively detailed, delightfully opinionated.
 
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Huba.Library | 9 andre anmeldelser | Feb 5, 2024 |
Classic Durant. Exhaustively detailed, delightfully opinionated.
 
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Huba.Library | 7 andre anmeldelser | Feb 5, 2024 |

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ISBN
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