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Autres noms: Kaufman, Ada/Ida (birth)
Kaufman, Chaya
Date de naissance: 1898-05-10
Date de décès: 1981-10-25
Lieu de sépulture: Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Sexe: female
Nationalité: USA
Lieu de naissance: Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
Lieu du décès: Los Angeles, California, USA
Lieux de résidence: Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
New York, New York, USA
Études: Ferrer Modern School, New York, New York, USA
Art Students League of New York
Professions: historian
writer
Relations: Durant, Will (husband)
Prix et distinctions: Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977)
Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year Award in Literature (1965)
Pulitzer Prize (General Nonfiction, 1968)
Courte biographie: Chaya (or Ada) Kaufman was born in Ukraine and emigrated with her family to the USA. In 1913, while a 15-year-old schoolgirl in New York City, she fell in love with and married Will Durant, one of her teachers. The most famous story told about her is that she was so young, she arrived at City Hall on rollerskates for their wedding. Durant called her Ariel, and she later adopted the name legally. She was involved with her husband in the writing of every volume of The Story of Civilization but only received author credit for the volumes published in 1961 and after. She shared the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for "Rousseau and Revolution."

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The Age of Reason Begins (The Story of Civilization… par Will Durant

The near century between the death of John Calvin and the Council to Trent to the end of the Thirty Years War saw first religious intolerance and religious wars range across the continent until in the end politics trumped everything like it always does. The Age of Reason Begins is the seventh volume of The Story of Civilization series by Will & Ariel Durant as Protestants fight one another and both fight Catholics before eventually politics overrules everything and people begin to ignore religion.

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.… (plus d'informations)

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mattries37315 | 8 autres critiques | Mar 18, 2024 |

The Story of Philosophy par Will Durant

Dramatic and opinionated review of the great thought-leaders of the Western canon. Misinterpreted Hellenistic philosophy schools, in my mind. Nevertheless, presents history and philosophical questions with a flourish and entertaining style.

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KKBucher | 29 autres critiques | Feb 13, 2024 |