Adventures in genius
By: by Will Durant ...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1931
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Other titles: Genius, Adventures in.
Table of contents: title: 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 Powyrs.-Adventures in travel: The problems 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?; title: adam