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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
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Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance, which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Interwoven into the narrative are the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Donatello as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola.
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Superb!
- By Eithan Bornstein on 2025-03-04
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The Medici
- Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2016-03-15
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice, and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. And yet, paradoxically, this family lived when the Renaissance was coming into its full flowering in Italy. Examples of infamy flourished alongside some of the finest art produced in western history.
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-06
- Language: English
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic's eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history.
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Comprehensive
- By Roberta W on 2024-02-25
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The Venetians
- A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-29
- Language: English
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Death in Florence
- The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
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Death in Florence illuminates one of the defining moments in Western history - the bloody and dramatic story of the battle for the soul of Renaissance Florence. By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
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Amazing story, superbly written
- By Laverdm on 2023-12-31
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Death in Florence
- The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2015-08-05
- Language: English
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Rise and Fall
- A History of the World in Ten Empires
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of Western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural stagnation, it almost fell to a whirlwind invasion from the East, at which point we meet the Emperors of the Mongol Empire....
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Rise and Fall
- A History of the World in Ten Empires
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2019-08-29
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism", makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's facade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the Universal Will, blind and without purpose. This Will brings on all our misery and suffering; our only hope is to liberate ourselves from its power and from the trappings of individualism and egoism that are at its mercy.
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Joyously irreverent and penetrating
- By Tim LAW on 2023-01-07
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-19
- Language: English
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability that permitted the development of structured thought and intellectual embellishment of unparalleled degree.
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great reader, some humour, no info
- By Skoot on 2023-11-08
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-16
- Language: English
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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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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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Spinoza's brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God, one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza's conclusions are deeply in accord with modern thought, from science (the holistic ethics of today's ecologists) to politics (the idea that the state exists to protect the individual).
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Es muy corto y general.
- By Isra Linares on 2023-07-16
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 2005-09-19
- Language: English
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, London, and even in Italy itself.
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2024-10-29
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein en 90 minutos [Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos, libro 25 [90 Minutes, Book 25]
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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En Wittgenstein en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del torturado genio vienés. El libro incluye una selección de sus escritos, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas para aquellos que deseen profundizar en su pensamiento, y cronologías que sitúan a Wittgenstein en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.
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Wittgenstein en 90 minutos [Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos, libro 25 [90 Minutes, Book 25]
- Narrated by: Daniel Cubillo
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 2024-10-09
- Language: Spanish
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment, when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the individual. In Sartre's hands, it became a revolt against European bourgeois values.
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Poor analysis
- By Anonymous User on 2022-03-17
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 2007-07-05
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 26 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
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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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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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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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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and its fundamental question was, "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question could not simply be "analyzed away". It was beyond the reach of logic or reason. It was the primary "given" of every individual life. To confront it, Heidegger needed to develop an entire new form of philosophy.
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 2005-07-08
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished."
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Unfathomably Bad.
- By Bill Gairns on 2022-02-08
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-14
- Language: English
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and incisive. His major concept is the will to power, which he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts. Christianity he saw as a subtle perversion of this concept, thus Nietzsche's famous pronouncement, "God is dead."
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Seems the Author does not like or respect Nietzsch
- By D.J.Wheelz on 2023-03-01
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2004-04-13
- Language: English
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- Written by: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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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
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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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