Adventures in genius
| Main Author: | Durant, Will, 1885-1981. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Simon and Schuster,
1931.
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 426 pages, 2 leaves : frontispiece, portraits ; 25 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Adventures in suggestion: The ten "greatest" thinkers; Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin. The ten "greatest" poets; Homer, "David," Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman. One hundred best books for an education.
- Adventures in philosophy: The philosophy of Spengler. The philosophy of Keyserling. Bertrand Russell on marriage and morals.
- Adventures in literature:
- In praise of Flaubert. Anatole France. John Cowper Powys.
- Adventures in travel: The problem of Palestine. Seen in India. China
- dying, or reborn?
- Adventures in controversy: Behaviorism and philosophy. Twelve world dates. A letter to the mayor, on being invited to debate with him the failure of democracy. Is modern education a failure?