Rousseau and Revolution 📚 | Will & Ariel Durant’s Epic Dive into Post-Enlightenment Europe 🌍✨

Join my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SpencerReadsE... Join me on goodreads:   / spencer-reads-everything   Follow me on X/twitter: https://x.com/spencerdun21655 Check out my new channel:    / @historyunraveledwithdr.duncan   0:00 Introduction 0:32 Summary 2:58 Book 1 Prelude 5:46 Book 2 France Before the Deluge 6:49 Book 3 The Catholic South 7:52 Book 4 Islam and the Slavic East 9:44 Book 5 The Protestant North 11:26 Book 6 Johnson’s England 11:55 Book 7 The Collapse of Feudal France 12:41 Reaction 15:20 Who is this for? 17:20 Who is this NOT for? 18:57 Outro Step into Post-Enlightenment Europe with one of the most compelling volumes of The Story of Civilization series! 📜✨ In this video, I review Rousseau and Revolution by Will and Ariel Durant, the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece that explores the world of ideas, art, war, and social change leading up to the French Revolution. 🗼🔥 📚 This is Volume 10 in the series, and it’s one of the most ambitious yet! We’ll discuss: 💡 Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s radical philosophy and personal contradictions 🏰 The opulence and decay of 18th-century France 🎭 Voltaire, Diderot, and the Enlightenment intellectuals ⚔️ How revolution brewed in salons, pamphlets, and public squares 🖼️ Art, music, and the philosophical tensions that reshaped Europe 🏆 Why this volume won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968 As part of my ongoing journey through the Durant series 📖, this deep dive includes historical highlights, chapter breakdowns, and my reflections on the book’s style, structure, and arguments. 🔔 If you love history, philosophy, and sweeping cultural analysis told with literary flair, this book—and this video—is for you. ✨ Don’t forget to check out my Durant Playlist here:    • The Story of Civilization   And subscribe for more Pulitzer Prize-winning book reviews, history content, and big ideas! 🎙 Welcome to Spencer Reads Everything, where we review books of every genre, even ones written by comedians. 🔔 Don’t forget to like, subscribe, turn on those notifications, and until next time... keep those pages turning. #durant #pulitzerprize #rousseau #enlightenment #frenchrevolution #historybooks #willdurant #storyofcivilization #philosophy #bookreview #spencerreadseverything #historicalnonfiction #booktube