Will Durant (1885–1981)
Autor de The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Sobre El Autor
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 Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926) — Autor — 4,227 copias
El Renacimiento (Historia de la Civilización en Italia de 1304 a 1576). Traducción de C. A. Jordana. 2 tomos. (1953) 1,605 copias
Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (2001) 276 copias
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time (1970) 84 copias
Our Oriental Heritage: Part 1 - The Establishment of Civilization, Sumeria, Egypt, Babylonia, and Assyria (1966) 14 copias
Van Socrates tot Bergson : hoofdfiguren uit de geschiedenis van het denken. - 3: Van Spencer tot Bergson (1942) 13 copias
The foundations of civilization 10 copias
Van Socrates tot Bergson : hoofdfiguren uit de geschiedenis van het denken. - 1: Van Plato tot Bacon 10 copias
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit Band 15: Europa und der Osten im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (1978) 8 copias
In den hof der wijsbegeerte : een critische uiteenzetting van de groote vragen van dezen tijd (1940) 8 copias
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit Band 7: Das hohe Mittelalter und die Frührenaissance (1978) 6 copias
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit. 2. Band Der Ferne Osten und der Aufstieg Griechenlands (1976) 6 copias
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit XVII. Die Französische Revolution und der Aufstieg Napoleons. (1990) 6 copias
Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit X. Gegenreformation und Elisabethanisches Zeitalter. (1983) 5 copias
100 best books for an education 5 copias
Rousseau and Revolution: Part 4 - Johnson's England II, The Collapse of Feudal France (1966) 5 copias
The Story of Philosophy, Updated and Revised: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers from Ptahhotep to… (2020) 4 copias
The Life of Greece: Part 3 - The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom, The Hellenistic Dispersion (1963) 4 copias
قصة الحضارة: نشأة الحضارة 3 copias
Los Heroes De La Historia/ Heroes of History: Una breve historia de la civilizacion, desde la antiguedad hasta los… (2003) 3 copias
Filosofia da Vida 3 copias
Volumes 1-5: Part I - Our Oriental Heritage; Part II - The Life of Greece; Part III - Caesar and Christ; Part IV - The… (1939) 3 copias
Rousseau and Revolution: Part 1 - Prelude, France before the Deluge, The Catholic South I (1969) 3 copias
Filosofía, cultura y vida 2 copias
The Life Of Greece Part 1 Of 2 2 copias
Os grandes filósofos : Schopenhauer 2 copias
The Reformation: Part 3 - The Strangers in the Gate, Behind the Scenes, The Counter-Reformation (1966) 2 copias
KANT SCHOPENHAUER NIETZSCHE 2 copias
Our Oriental Heritage Part 1 Of 2 2 copias
Mësimet e historisë 1 copia
Cezar i Hrist 1 copia
La civilización de la India 1 copia
Das Leben Griechenlands 1 copia
História da filosofia, A 1 copia
تاریخ فلسفه 1 copia
Storia della civiltà 1 copia
[11]: L'eta di Napoleone 1 copia
The Case for India 1 copia
Heroes of History 1 copia
The Lessons of History 1 copia
Filosofía, Cultura y Vida vol 1 1 copia
OS GRANDES FILOSÓFOS-ARISTÓTELES 1 copia
قصة الحضارة (عصر فولتير) 1 copia
قصة الحضارة (أوروبا الوسطى) 1 copia
Western philosophy story (Kodansha academic library) (1986) ISBN: 4061587234 [Japanese Import] (1990) 1 copia
قصة الحضارة (روسو والثورة) 1 copia
OS GRANDES FILOSÓFOS -PLATÃO 1 copia
قصة الحضارة - عصر الإيمان 1 copia
قصة الحضارة - الإصلاح الدينى 1 copia
Filisofía, Cultura y Vida vol 2 1 copia
قصة الحضارة - حياة اليونان 1 copia
قصة الحضارة (عصر النهضة) 1 copia
Filosofi 7-11-1 1 copia
Read history. I can learn what: the 20th century's greatest historical works essence conclusion. tell you(Chinese… (2000) 1 copia
La edad de la fe, TOMO III 1 copia
Filosofi - Le opere 7-11-1 1 copia
World History (multi-volume) 1 copia
Tarihten Alınacak Dersler 1 copia
Romaveldi - Vol I 1 copia
Romaveldi - Vol II 1 copia
A program for America. 1 copia
The Renaissance Part 1 Of 2 1 copia
Story of Philosophy Part II, The 1 copia
Le Lezioni della storia 3-5-1 1 copia
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: الهند وجيرانها 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: النهضة #1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: حياة اليونان #2 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: حياة اليونان #1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأقصى الصين 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: النهضة #4 1 copia
História da Filosofia Vol 1 1 copia
História da Filosofia Vol 2 1 copia
Van Socrates tot Bergson 1 copia
قصة الحضارة - ملخص 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: حياة اليونان #3 1 copia
La civilización de la India 1 copia
Lood filosoofia ajaloost. IV-V 1 copia
islam medeniyeti 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأدنى 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: عصر الإيمان #3 1 copia
The Age of Louis XIV (The Story of Civilization VIII) and The Age of Voltaire: A History of Civilization in Western… (1900) 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: عصر الإيمان #1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: عصر فولتير #1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: الإصلاح الديني #5 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: النهضة #2 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: روسو والثورة #1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: النهضة #3 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Durant, William James
- 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 (1907)
Cambridge University (1917) - Ocupaciones
- historian
writer
author
librarian - Relaciones
- Durant, Ariel (wife)
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
Ferrer Modern School - Premios y honores
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Pulitzer Prize (literature|1967) - 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.
Miembros
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)
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- Obras
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- También por
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- Miembros
- 26,494
- Popularidad
- #789
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 198
- ISBNs
- 369
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 33
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.… (más)