![]() ![]() Even compared to the other excellent volumes of The Story, this one is notable for the range of brilliant actors who march across its stage. شربیانیįinally we come to the Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of the series. The Anatomy of Revolution: 1774–89 The Political Debacle: 1783–89. The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774–89: The Final Glory: 1774–83 ĭeath and the Philosophers: 1774–1807 On the Eve: 1774–89 The Age of Reynolds: 1756–90 England's Neighbors: 1756–89 Johnson's England: 1756–89: The Industrial Revolution Kant: 1724–1804 Roads to Weimar: 1733–87 įrom Geneva to Stockholm: “He concluded that history is an excellent teacher with few pupils.” (p. The Protestant North: 1756–89: Frederick's Germany: 1756–86 ![]() Mozart: “Lovers under a window plucked at a guitar or mandolin and a maiden’s heart.” (p. Rousseau Romantic: 1756–62 Rousseau Philosopher The Art of Life Voltaire Patriarch: 1758–78 Rousseau and Revolution (The Story Of Civilization #10), Will Durantįrance Before the Deluge: 1757–74: The Life of the State “He concluded that history is an excellent teacher with few pupils.” (p. “Lovers under a window plucked at a guitar or mandolin and a maiden’s heart.” (p. It received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968. This volume centers on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his times. Rousseau and Revolution (1967) (The Story Of Civilization #10), Will Durant The military exploits, the elegance and corruption of court life, the diversity of cultural, economic, and social events, the prejudices and mores of the entire European scene-surely it is a measure of the Durants' comprehensive mastery that so vast a panorama has been handled with so many splendidly interwoven episodes, judicious portraits, and contemporary ramifications. ![]() The gallery swells with figures as important as the star performer himself: Goethe, Johnson, Voltaire, Catherine and Frederick, Mozart, Kant, Reynolds. Around the towering and perplexing personality of Rousseau who set spinning the whirlpool of ideology, both Left and Right, the authors recreate in vivid narrative style the growth of eighteenth century intellectual, moral and political dissent, the summit and decline of autocratic rule, religious disenchantment and democratic stirrings, ""the role of genius in history, of man versus the mass and the state""-in short, that great and continuing debate of which we are now the troubled heirs. The Story of Civilization, with its tenth volume, Rousseau and Revolution. ![]()
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