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Ariel and Will Durant in the library of their home in Los Angeles, 1967. While Durant's work was well received by popular audiences, its academic reception was more critical. Classics scholar Moses Finley criticised Durant's The Life of Greece on a number of grounds, including the book's racial essentialism and support for the great man theory ...
The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, with a particular emphasis on European (Western) history. The series was written over a span of four decades.
Ariel Durant (/ d ə ˈ r æ n t /; May 10, 1898 – October 25, 1981) [1] was a Ukrainian-born American researcher and writer. She was the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband, Will Durant .
The Lessons of History is a 1968 book by historians Will Durant and Ariel Durant. The book provides a summary of periods and trends in history they had noted upon completion of the 10th volume of their momentous eleven-volume The Story of Civilization. Will Durant stated that he and Ariel "made note of events and comments that might illuminate ...
Durant wrote Heroes of History more for the layman than the scholar. Historical facts were interspersed with the author's opinions and reflections. "This book is likely to find a wide audience among those looking for an introduction to world history", says John Little of Publishers Weekly, "but the absence of a bibliography and source notes may denote to scholars a certain lack of rigor."
The following is an excerpt from Will and Ariel Durant’s “The Lessons of History,” published in 1968: “In England and the United States, in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, in Switzerland and ...
Durant-Pritchard teased that while the majority of season 5 will focus on the “work environment” for Blake, viewers will eventually “start to sort of see more about the man” and “what ...
Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next. There are nine chapters each focused on one philosopher, and two more chapters each containing briefer profiles of three early 20th century philosophers. The book was published in 1926, with a revised second edition released in 1933.