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Will and Ariel Durant Rousseau and Revolution: The Story of Civilization, vol. X
New York, NY Simon and Schuster 1967 067163058X / 9780671630584 Hard Cover Very Good Poor
Durant's purpose in writing The Story of Civilization was not to create a definitive scholarly production but to make a large amount of information accessible and comprehensible to the educated public in the form of a comprehensive "composite history." Given the massive undertaking in creating these 11 volumes over 50 years, errors and incompleteness have occurred; yet for an attempt as large in breadth of time and scope as this, there are no similar works to compare. As Durant says in the preface to his first work, Our Oriental Heritage: I wish to tell as much as I can, in as little space as I can, of the contributions that genius and labor have made to the cultural heritage of mankind - to chronicle and contemplate, in their causes, character and effects, the advances of invention, the varieties of economic organization, the experiments in government, the aspirations of religion, the mutations of morals and manners, the masterpieces of literature, the development of science, the wisdom of philosophy, and the achievements of art. I do not need to be told how absurd this enterprise is, nor how immodest is its very conception ... Nevertheless I have dreamed that despite the many errors inevitable in this undertaking, it may be of some use to those upon whom the passion for philosophy has laid the compulsion to try to see things whole, to pursue perspective, unity and time, as well as to seek them through science in space. ... Like philosophy, such a venture [as the creation of these 11 volumes] has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. -Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage, preface Rousseau and Revolution received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968.
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Will Durant The Renaissance: The Story of Civilization V
New York, NY Simon and Schuster 1953 0671616005 / 9780671616007 Cloth Good Fair
777 pp Hardcover Part V of Will Durant's Story of Civilization. Other volumes in the series are being listed also. Board deep red withgilt lettering and illustration on front cover. Corners show minor bumps. Pages clean, firm, no marks. No dj. Inside cover has detailed map of Italy in the XV & XVI centuries. Fine source book. Classic
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