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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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series

Obras de Will Durant

The Life of Greece (1939) 1,826 copias
The Lessons of History (1968) 1,766 copias
Our Oriental Heritage (1935) — Autor — 1,750 copias
Caesar and Christ (1944) 1,743 copias
The Reformation (1957) 1,676 copias
The Age of Faith (1950) 1,559 copias
The Age of Louis XIV (1963) 1,461 copias
The Age of Voltaire (1965) — Autor — 1,446 copias
Rosseau and Revolution (1967) 1,442 copias
The Age of Reason Begins (1961) 1,439 copias
The Age of Napoleon (1975) 1,314 copias
The Pleasures of Philosophy (1940) 340 copias
Heroes of History (2001) 278 copias
On the Meaning of Life (2005) 64 copias
The Case for India (1930) 35 copias
Der alte Orient und Indien (1979) 12 copias
Great Men of Literature (1931) 12 copias
Adventures in Philosophy (2008) 9 copias
Das Zeitalter Voltaires (1983) 8 copias
Die Napoleonische Ära (1983) 8 copias
Europa im Zeitalter der Könige (1980) — Autor — 8 copias
Adventures in Genius (1931) 8 copias
Weltreiche des Glaubens (1981) 6 copias
Das frühe Mittelalter (1978) 6 copias
A Guide to Plato (1947) 3 copias
Socialism and Anarchism (1914) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

Los Angeles 200: A Bicentennial Celebration (1980) — Prólogo — 35 copias
The Works of Schopenhauer [abridged] (1928) — Editor, algunas ediciones; Editor — 29 copias
The American Legion Reader (1953) — Contribuidor — 4 copias

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Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Durant, Will
Nombre legal
Durant, William James
Otros nombres
ول ديورانت
ויל דוראנט
Fecha de nacimiento
1885-11-05
Fecha de fallecimiento
1981-11-07
Lugar de sepultura
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Los Angeles, California, USA
Lugares de residencia
North Adams, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
Educación
Saint Peter's College (BA|1907)
Columbia University (Ph.D|1917)
Ocupaciones
historian
writer
author
librarian
Relaciones
Durant, Ariel (wife)
Organizaciones
Ferrer Modern School
Seton Hall University
Labor Temple School
Premios y honores
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Pulitzer Prize (literature|1967)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
Golden Plate Award (1976)
Aviso de desambiguación
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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Debates

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

Reseñas

O Will e a Ariel possuem uma prosa e uma habilidade para escrever história que mesmo depois de duas mil páginas (Nossa Herança Oriental e Nossa Herança Clássica) eu ainda me sinto disposto de encarar mais outras mil. Olha que eu sou um leitor de pouco fôlego e que história seja talvez um interesse menor meu, em comparação com ficção e outras coisas.

É, sobretudo, a personalidade deles, o método e a maneira de avançar nos tópicos que faz um livro de história da primeira metade do século passado ter tanto frescor. O Will com certeza se inspira nos historiadores antigos — Heródoto e Tucídides —, e a ajuda da Ariel faz com que ele não caia em muito dos problemas de outros historiadores antigos no trato das raças, do gênero, da sexualidade e, principalmente, do papel feminino na história. Desde o primeiro livro isso fica claro.

Para fazer A História da Civilização, por exemplo, "o casal Durant empregou a maior parte de seu tempo de trabalho (oito a quatorze horas diárias) ao livro ", e a dedicação foi tanta que "Para se prepararem melhor para a obra, Will Durant e a mulher viajaram pela Europa em 1927, deram a volta ao mundo em 1930, para estudar o Egito, o Oriente Próximo, índia, China e Japão, e novamente circularam a Terra em 1932, para visitar o Japão, a Manchúria, Sibéria, Rússia Europeia e Polônia.

Outro ponto que talvez me faça lê-los com tanto vigor é o método e o objetivo que eles possuem. O primeiro: escrever a história como "o estudo das principais fases da vida, do trabalho, da cultura [e da arte] de um povo, entrosadamente." Isso pauta muito do conteúdo. A gente lê muito sobre todo tipo de arte, trechos de literatura, referências a estatuária e a pintura, entre outros. O segundo ponto: eles enxergam o estudo da história como uma iluminação dos dias de hoje "[Will] nos recorda que os ditadores sempre usaram o mesmo métodos" e que fenômenos e acontecimentos antigos são atuais, como "agências bancárias, de fundos destinados a melhoramentos com fins políticos, depressão econômica, projetos e regulamentações governamentais, socialismo do Estado, planos prioritários de tempo de guerra, corrupção eleitoral, grupos de pressão, associações de classe e outros (...) e existem há pelo menos dois mil anos.

Agora, nesta entrada da série: a história de Roma e Cristo. O drama do maior império da história, que nenhum poeta conseguiria replicar ou fabricar. De uma aldeia de encruzilhada à dominação do mundo; e, então, a queda.
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RolandoSMedeiros | 12 reseñas más. | Apr 26, 2024 |
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 reseñas más. | 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 | 31 reseñas más. | Feb 13, 2024 |
Classic Durant. Exhaustively detailed, delightfully opinionated.
 
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Huba.Library | 9 reseñas más. | Feb 5, 2024 |

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