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Adventures in genius / by Will Durant ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dreiser Library AC8 .D95 1931
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durant, Will, 1885-1981.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 (inscription)
- Durant, Will, 1885- (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 426 pages, 2l. : frontispiece, portraits ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Genius, Adventures in.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, 1931.
- 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?.
- Local Notes:
- Dreiser Library copy inscribed to Theodore Dreiser by the author.
- OCLC:
- 1075634
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