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Will Durant
American historian, philosopher and writer (1885–1981)
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| Born | William James Durant (1885-11-05)November 5, 1885 North Adams, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 1981(1981-11-07) (aged 96) Los Angeles, California |
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| Education | Saint Peter's College (BA, 1907) Columbia University (PhD, 1917) |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | History, philosophy, religion |
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William James Durant (; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations. It was written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy (1926), described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy".[1]
Durant conceived of philosophy as total perspective or seeing thi
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Biography
Over the course of six decades, Will Durant enjoyed a remarkable career as a philosopher and historian, beginning with the publication of his book, The Story of Philosophy, in 1927. A few years after releasing that book, Durant took on the monumental task of writing an integrative account of human history, which became The Story of Civilization. Durant's wife, Ariel, came to join him on his journey through time, and together they produced 11 volumes in the series, beginning with Our Oriental Heritage in 1935 and concluding with The Age of Napoleon in 1975. Their work on The Story of Civilization earned them a Pulitzer Prize in 1968 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
In the following interview, conducted in 1967 by journalist Roy Newquist, The Durants discuss their process for documenting human history.
WILL DURANT: I was born in 1885 in a little town in Massachusetts named North Adams. I've often resented the fact that the Lord didn't allow me to be born in nearby Williamstown - then I could have gotten a good education just by sticking aro
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William James Durant was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 1885. He was educated in the Roman Catholic parochial schools there and in Kearny, New Jersey, and thereafter in St. Peter’s (Jesuit) College, Jersey City, New Jersey where he graduated in 1907, and Columbia University, New York. For a summer in 1907 he served as a cub reporter on the New York Journal, but finding the work too strenuous for his temperament, he settled down at Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey, to teach Latin, French, English, and geometry (1907-11). He entered the seminary at Seton Hall in 1909, but withdrew in 1911 for reasons which he has described in his book Transition. He passed from this quiet seminary to the most radical circles in New York and became (1911-13) the teacher of the Ferrer Modern School, an experiment in libertarian education. In 1912 he toured Europe at the invitation and expense of Alden Freeman, who had befriended him and now undertook to broaden his borders. Returning to the Ferrer School, he fell in love with one of his pupils, resigned his position, and married he
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