Concept

The Story of Civilization

Overview

The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), by husband and wife team Will Durant and Ariel Durant (known as "the Durants"), is an eleven-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, with a particular emphasis on European (Western) history, written over a span of four decades.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed The Story of Civilization

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Will Durant
• Blaise Pascal
• Empedocles

Related ideas

• India
• Japan
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Middle Ages
• Near East
• The New Republic
• Will Durant
• The New York Times
• Age of Enlightenment
• Achaemenid Empire
• Jacob Burckhardt
• Time (magazine)
• Italian Renaissance
• Voltaire
• Reformation
• Hellenistic period
• Christianity
• Ancient Rome
• China
• Ancient Greece
• Napoleon
• Dante Alighieri
• Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
• Ariel Durant

Place in the tradition

Part of Empedocles.

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