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DURANT (Will). HISTÓRIA da Filosofia. Lisboa. s.d. - DURANT (Will) HISTÓRIA da Filosofia . Tradução de Godofredo Rangel e Maonteiro Lobato. Prefácio, Revisão, Notas, Glossário e Textos Escolhidos por Joel Serrão. Lisboa: Livros do Brasil, s.d. 528 pp.: il.; 220 mm. The Portuguese edition of The Story of Philosophy (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1926), one of the great successes of philosophical popularization in the 20th century, which sold two million copies in the first years after publication and was translated into more than twenty languages. The work traces the lives and thought of the main philosophers of the Western tradition - from Plato and Aristotle to Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - with clarity and elegance accessible to the non-specialist reader. The Portuguese translation is by Godofredo Rangel and Monteiro Lobato. This edition from Livros do Brasil has a preface, revision, notes, glossary, and selection of texts by Joel Serrão (Funchal, 1919 - Sesimbra, 2008), historian and essayist, with a degree in Historical-Philosophical Sciences from the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, university professor, and one of those responsible for the renewal of Portuguese historiography in the 20th century, particularly noted for directing the Dictionary of the History of Portugal and the New History of Portuguese Expansion . Serrão's intervention gives this edition an adapted character for the Portuguese-speaking public. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate