Heroes of History : a Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age PDF

William James Durant war ein produktiver amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Historiker und Philosoph. Er ist am bekanntesten für das 11-bändige Buch The Story of Civilization, das in Zusammenarbeit mit seiner Frau Ariel geschrieben und zwischen 1935 und 1975 veröffentlicht wurde. Früher wurde er für sein 1926 geschriebenes Buch The Story of Philosophy bekannt, das als „a bahnbrechende Arbeit, die zur Popularisierung der Philosophie beitrug." Sie wurden 1967 mit dem Pulitzer-Preis für Literatur und 1977 mit der Presidential Medal of Freedom ausgezeichnet.

Heroes of History : a Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age pdf von Will Durant

In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces -- The Story of Civilization. Durant completed twenty-one of a proposed twenty-three chapters before his death in 1981, at the age of ninety-six. Those chapters span thousands of years of human history -- from Confucius to Shakespeare, from the Roman Empire to the Reformation, finally ending in the eighteenth century. The manuscript was recently found by Will Read more... Abstract: In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces -- The Story of Civilization. Durant completed twenty-one of a proposed twenty-three chapters before his death in 1981, at the age of ninety-six. Those chapters span thousands of years of human history -- from Confucius to Shakespeare, from the Roman Empire to the Reformation, finally ending in the eighteenth century. The manuscript was recently found by Will Durant scholar John Little -- twenty years after Durant finished it -- and its discovery is a major event, not only for lovers of his prose, but for students of history and philosophy the world over. -- Heroes of History At the dawn of a new millennium and the beginning of a new century, nothing could be more appropriate than this brilliant book that examines the meaning of human civilization and history and draws from the experience of the past the lessons we need to know to put the future into context and live in confidence, rather than fear and ignorance. Will Durant's work is marked by his own special quality as a writer -- he is tough-minded, optimistic, courageous, and convinced that without a knowledge of the past there is no wisdom to guide us to the future. Heroes of History This book is also available on audio tape and CD format, read by Will and Ariel Durant.