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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was the forerunner of logic; he used it to cut through the twaddle of his adversaries and arrive at the truth. Rather than questioning the world, he believed, we would be better off questioning ourselves.
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Outdated drivel
- By Amazon Customer on 2024-12-27
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Ten Cities That Led the World
- From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Through 10 unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, Paul Strathern explores how urban centres lead civilisation forward, enjoying a moment of glory before passing on the baton. We journey back to discover Babylonian mathematics, Athenian theatre and intellectual debate, and Roman construction that has lasted millennia. We see Constantinople evolve into Istanbul, revolutionary sparks fly in Enlightenment Paris, and the railways, canals and ships that built Imperial London.
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Ten Cities That Led the World
- From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2022-02-10
- Language: English
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state."
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Fantastic introduction to Plato
- By Annata on 2022-10-04
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-14
- Language: English
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance21
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Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: "I think, therefore I am." Eventually convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts. This internal information, he believed, was the true reality and external forces were hopelessly deceiving.
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Biography not philosophy, a great listen
- By So About That on 2023-10-20
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance6
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In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau's ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who encouraged the introduction of both liberty and irrationality into the public domain.
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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-16
- Language: English
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Marx in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Overall24
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Performance21
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Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely failed. Yet the force of the communist belief offered the prospect of "justice on this earth" to countless numbers. And Marx's critique has influenced generations of thinkers who call themselves Marxists.
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More about the man and the ideas
- By T on 2024-11-19
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Marx in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance19
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With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Even Hegel conceded that "only one man understands me, and even he does not." Hegel's system included absolutely everything, but its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This method sprang from Hegel's ambition to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascended toward mind as the ultimate reality.
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Perfect
- By Amazon Customer on 2022-10-02
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Latin American literature was never primitive; yet, from its beginnings, it was suffused with a fresh, often childish lyricism. Gabriel Garcia Marquez stands on the shoulders of a great Latin American literary heritage, but he is a modern rarity: a writer with aspirations to high art who also remains hugely popular. For those who fall under his spell, his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the richest literary dreams ever written.
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Malo, malo, malo
- By Erik Nelson on 2022-02-22
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Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-14
- Language: English
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance16
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In St. Augustine in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of St. Augustine's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from St. Augustine's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place St. Augustine within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.
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Freely critical of Augustine's philosophy
- By presterjohn1 on 2024-12-06
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St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts. His understanding of the darker and more extreme recesses of the human mind cast a forceful light into these areas of experience. The raw psychology and passionate involvement of his books galvanized writers and thinkers as disparate as Nietzsche and Kafka.
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Read it to understand Dostoyevsky
- By Marc Schelpe on 2022-06-13
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-14
- Language: English
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Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs
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A highly sensitive and intelligent child, Virginia Woolf grew up in a large family prone to psychological instability. Throughout her life, she was subject to periods of mental breakdown, yet when she was lucid she was capable of a uniquely perceptive and frank introspection. Under the influence of the Bloomsbury Group and their progressive social attitudes, she became experimental in her life and art, breaking with convention to produce some of the finest and most unique literary works of the 20th century.
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Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 2009-02-02
- Language: English
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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Lawrence's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes a list of Lawrence's chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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D. H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 2009-02-02
- Language: English
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Dark Brilliance
- The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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During the 1600s—between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment—Europe lived through an era known as The Age of Reason. By exploring all the key events and bringing to life some of the most influential characters of the era—including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV, and Charles I—acclaimed historian Paul Strathern tells the vivid story of this paradoxical age, while also exploring the painful cost of creating the progress and modernity upon which the Western world was built.
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Dark Brilliance
- The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2025-01-07
- Language: English
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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Beckett in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Beckett's life and ideas and explains their influence on literature and on man's struggle to understand his place in the world. The book also includes a list of Beckett's chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 2009-02-02
- Language: English
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Maquiavelo en 90 minutos (acento castellano) 9
- Written by: Paul Strathern, José A. Padilla Villate - translator
- Narrated by: Raquel Romero
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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El nombre de Maquiavelo produce todavía escalofríos; sigue siendo sinónimo del mal a casi 500 años de su muerte. Y sin embargo, Maquiavelo no era un hombre malvado. Intentó que su filosofía del Estado fuera científica, esto es, que no hubiera en ella espacio para el sentimiento o la...
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Maquiavelo en 90 minutos (acento castellano) 9
- Narrated by: Raquel Romero
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 2025-05-16
- Language: Spanish
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Sócrates en 90 minutos (acento castellano) 15
- Written by: Paul Strathern, José A. Padilla Villate - translator
- Narrated by: Gonzalo Durán
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Con Sócrates se inicia la gran época de la filosofía, transcurrido apenas un siglo desde sus comienzos. Sócrates dedicaba tanto tiempo a pasear por las calles de Atenas hablando de filosofía, que nunca llegó a escribir nada. Su método basado en preguntas provocadoras –lo que se llamó...
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Sócrates en 90 minutos (acento castellano) 15
- Narrated by: Gonzalo Durán
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-20
- Language: Spanish
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Kant en 90 minutos (acento castellano) 8
- Written by: Paul Strathern, José A. Padilla Villate - translator
- Narrated by: Roger Vidal
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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En Kant en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del autor de la Crítica de la razón pura. El audiolibro incluye una selección de sus escritos, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas y cronologías que sitúan a Kant en su época y en una sinopsis más...
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Kant en 90 minutos (acento castellano) 8
- Narrated by: Roger Vidal
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-20
- Language: Spanish
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Spinoza en 90 minutos 36
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Carlos Torres
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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"El brillante sistema metafísico de Spinoza no se deriva de la realidad ni de la experiencia. Partiendo de unos supuestos básicos, y a través de una serie de pruebas presentadas al estilo de la geometría, construye un universo que es también Dios, una sola cosa en él, constituyendo así el...
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Spinoza en 90 minutos 36
- Narrated by: Carlos Torres
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-07
- Language: Spanish
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Leibniz en 90 minutos 24
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Carlos Zertuche
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Leibniz fue el primero de los grandes filósofos alemanes en producir un sistema filosófico omnicomprensivo. Llegó a la notable conclusión de que el tiempo y el espacio no existen, de que son suposiciones supersticiosas. Sólo las cosas existen, y sólo Dios es capaz de verlas como realmente...
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Leibniz en 90 minutos 24
- Narrated by: Carlos Zertuche
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-07
- Language: Spanish
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Nietzsche en 90 minutos 29
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardés
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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En los siglos anteriores a él, la filosofía había sido peligrosa para los filósofos, pero con Friedrich Nietzsche resulta peligrosa para todo el mundo. Nietzsche enloqueció y su locura presagió la demencia colectiva que había de tener consecuencias horrendas en Europa durante la primera...
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Nietzsche en 90 minutos 29
- Narrated by: Gustavo Dardés
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-07
- Language: Spanish
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