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
- 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
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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.… (lisätietoja)