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 — 4,247 copias
El Renacimiento (Historia de la Civilización en Italia de 1304 a 1576). Traducción de C. A. Jordana. 2 tomos. (1953) 1,610 copias
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time (1970) 84 copias
The Story of Philosophy, Vol. 2: From Kant to William James and the American Pragmatists (2001) 33 copias
The Story of Philosophy, Vol. 1: From Plato to Voltaire and the French Enlightenment (2004) 30 copias
Our Oriental Heritage: Part 1 - The Establishment of Civilization, Sumeria, Egypt, Babylonia, and Assyria (1935) 15 copias
The foundations of civilization 10 copias
100 best books for an education 5 copias
Rousseau and Revolution: Part 4 - Johnson's England II, The Collapse of Feudal France (1967) 5 copias
The Age of Voltaire: Part 3 - The Advancement of Learning, The Attack on Christianity (1965) 4 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 (1939) 4 copias
The Story of Civilization, 1-7 3 copias
Rousseau and Revolution: Part 1 - Prelude, France before the Deluge, The Catholic South I (1967) 3 copias
The Reformation: Part 3 - The Strangers in the Gate, Behind the Scenes, The Counter-Reformation (1957) 2 copias
A Guide to Spinoza 2 copias
The Age of Reason Begins: Part 3 - The Faiths Fight for Power II, The Tentatives of Reason (1961) 2 copias
The Story of Civilization, 1-9 2 copias
The Pleasures of Philosophy, Vol. 1 2 copias
Storia della civiltà 1 copia
The Story of Civilization, 1-6 1 copia
Tarihten Alınacak Dersler 1 copia
Das Leben Griechenlands 1 copia
The Age of Faith, Part 2 of 2 1 copia
The Story of Civilization, 6-7 1 copia
The Story of Civilization, 5-6 1 copia
قصة الحضارة (أوروبا الوسطى) 1 copia
قصة الحضارة - ملخص 1 copia
Filosofi - Le opere 7-11-1 1 copia
Filosofi 7-11-1 1 copia
A Program for America 1 copia
World History (multi-volume) 1 copia
Le Lezioni della storia 3-5-1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأقصى الصين 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: حياة اليونان #1 1 copia
The Story of Civilization, 7-11 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: روسو والثورة #1 1 copia
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: عصر فولتير #1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: عصر الإيمان #1 1 copia
قصة الحضارة: الشرق الأدنى 1 copia
islam medeniyeti 1 copia
Lood filosoofia ajaloost. IV-V 1 copia
The Age of Faith, Part 1 of 2 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 133 copias
High Moment: Stories of Supreme Crises in the Lives of Great Men — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
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.
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)
Reseñas
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My List (1)
Big History (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 189
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 26,599
- Popularidad
- #785
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 201
- ISBNs
- 369
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 33
The book centered around France with the Netherlands, England/Britain, and the intellectual revolution for most of the text as well as the interaction between all of them over the course of the decades the Durants wrote about. While the rest of Europe is discussed, especially the continual rise of Russia during the reign of Peter the Great, the Durants give a good but brief synopsis of each location when not connected with the main portions of the book. The political, religious, and cultural developments of France and England were gone over in detail not only for their own history but how it affected the rest of the world. Yet for the Durants, especially Will, the portion of the book that the reader can tell they enjoyed writing and having a hard time holding back is the intellectual revolution in science and philosophy in the latter half of the 17th century and early 18th century. Not only are there chapters dedicated to Newton, Spinoza, and Leibniz but all the English political philosophers that have had influenced thought were covered in detail as well. A thorough reader of this series can tell that there is excitement and dedication to the intellectual revolution like that of the second volume of the series, The Life of Greece.
The Age of Louis XIV sees Will and Ariel Durant detailed not only the man who dominated a Europe undergoing an intellectual revolution but how he led his nation to disaster to the benefit of Britain.… (más)