The Renaissance

Durant, Will

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

From the Back Cover\nThis groundbreaking survey from Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of key philosophical thinkers throughout history. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, Durant offers lucid, accessible explanations of philosophers’ contributions. He explores the legacy of Francis Bacon, Baruch Spinoza, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herbert Spencer, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The last two chapters feature contemporary European philosophers Henri Bergson, Benedetto Croce, and Bertrand Russell, as well as Americans George Santayana, William James, and John Dewey. The author builds a history of philosophy by showing how each thinker’s ideas informed and influenced the next generation. 
First published in 1926, The Story of Philosophy is essential reading for anyone fascinated by the development of Western philosophy.\nPulitzer Prize–winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrates and Plato and concluding with Friedrich Nietzsche, with twelve other prominent philosophers in between, the author builds a history of philosophy by showing how each thinker’s ideas informed and influenced the next generation. An essential read for anyone fascinated by the development of Western philosophy.

The Story of Philosophy (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Dover Publications

Covers the economy, politics, law, science, philosophy, and the art of the Christians, Moslems, and the Jews during medieval times

The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilization, Volume 4)

History

World

Simon&Schuster

A cultural history of the rise of Rome and its achievements and contributions paralleling it with modern history

Caesar and Christ (The Story of Civilization III)

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.

The Story of Philosophy (Touchstone Books) (Touchstone Books (Paperback))

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

The Durants discuss their scholarly and personal life together, their enduring love for each other, and the acquaintanceship of almost every major literary and intellectual personality in Europe and America

Will & Ariel Durant: A Dual Autobiography

Durant, Ariel

Americas

WILL DURANT (1885-1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1968) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977). He spent over fifty years writing his critically acclaimed eleven-volume series, The Story of Civilization (the later volumes written in conjunction with his wife, Ariel). A champion of human rights issues such as the brotherhood of man and social reform long before such issues were popular, Durant, through his writings, continues to educate and entertain readers the world over.

Transition: A sentimental Story of One Mind and One Era

Arts & Literature

2 distinguished historians express their evaluation of the nature of the human experience and what may be learned from it

The Lessons of History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

A history of Greek civilization and culture from Crete's Aegean empire to the Roman conquest of Greece

The Story of Civilization, Vol II: The Life of Greece by Will Durant.

Europe

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers From Plato to John Dewey

Washington Square Press

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