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 näytä lisää 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) näytä vähemmän
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- Virallinen nimi
- Durant, William James
- Muut nimet
- DURANT, William James
DURANT, Will - Syntymäaika
- 1885-11-05
- Kuolinaika
- 1981-11-07
- Hautapaikka
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- North Adams, Massachusetts, USA (birth)
- Koulutus
- Saint Peter's College (1907)
Cambridge University (1917) - Ammatit
- historian
writer
author
librarian - Suhteet
- Durant, Ariel (wife)
- Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
Ferrer Modern School - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Pulitzer Prize (literature|1967) - Erotteluhuomautus
- 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?, Non-Fiction Readers (joulukuu 2021)
Will Durant, Philosophy and Theory (heinäkuu 2010)
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Taking up the historical narrative where he left off in the previous volume, Durant presents a wide-ranging survey of nearly three centuries worth of events, individuals, and artistic accomplishments while putting them all in context with one another. Not since the volume focusing on Greece has Durant’s prose brought across his excitement for covering a subject, mostly because of his meticulous descriptions on the artistic accomplishments of so many individuals that includes not only the very well-known to those we might only read about in this volume. Yet those lesser-known individuals are given such a treatment by Durant that readers could quickly search for images of their work on the Internet today to see why he is so passionate about them. Given Durant’s issues with problematic language and his seeming contempt of religion in previous volumes, those issues didn’t really come up until close to the end of the volume with the emergence of the domination of the Italian peninsula by the Spanish at the conclusion of the Italian Wars with Valois France.
The Renaissance features the best aspects of Will Durant’s prose as he lovingly gushes over the accomplishments of nearly three centuries of Italian culture even as it was politically divided which would lead to its eventual subjection to foreign rule.… (lisätietoja)