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Titre: Le rire: Essai sur le comique en général

Auteur: Henri Bergson

Narrateur: Xavier Béja

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 3 hrs and 48 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 01-22-14

Éditeur: LYRE AUDIO

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Bergson décrit le phénomène du rire comme une "mécanique plaqué sur du vivant". Avec l'exigence et la rigueur toute scientifique propres à son œuvre philosophique, l'auteur dissèque le rire avec le plus grand sérieux mais non sans humour. Plus spécialement, le rire provoqué par le comique, en analysant ses causes et ses diverses manifestations pour donner à l'auditeur une pleine vision d'ensemble d'un sujet, souvent considéré à tort comme mineur par la philosophie en général.

Membre de l'Académie Française, Prix Nobel de Littérature, Henri Bergson compte parmi les esprits les plus brillants du vingtième siècle.

© Domaine public (P)2011 Lyre Audio

Revues par les critiques:

A propos de ce titre

Enregistrement nominé pour le prix de la plume de paon 2012.

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Titre: Classicisme et Lumières (Histoire philosophique des arts 3)

Auteur: Carole Talon-Hugon

Narrateur: Carole Talon-Hugon

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-21-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Qu'est-ce que l'art ? Comment s'est-il constitué et défini à travers l'histoire ? Quels rapports entretient-il avec la philosophie ?

Pour la première fois, l'éditeur des savoirs les Presses Universitaires de France et la maison de disques culturels de référence Frémeaux & Associés s'associent pour proposer des cours particuliers sur l'histoire philosophique des arts et des discours sur l'art, conçus et présentés par Carole Talon-Hugon, spécialiste française de l'approche philosophique de l'histoire de l'art.

Claude Colombini Frémeaux

L'intervenante

Les champs de recherches de

sont d'une part l'esthétique et la philosophie de l'art, d'autre part la question de l'affectivité.

Outre de nombreux articles dans ces deux domaines, elle a notamment publié

(Vrin, 2002),

(Armand Colin, 2004),

(P.U.F., Que sais je ?, 3ème éd. 2010),

(Actes Sud, 2006),

(éd. J. Chambon, 2003), et

(P.U.F., 2009). Elle a dirigé le n6 de la Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique "Ethiques d'artistes" (P.U.F., 2011) et, un recueil de traductions :

(P.U.F., 2011). Elle a co-dirigé avec Pierre Destrée, un volume collectif intitulé

(Ovadia, 2011).

©2013 Frémeaux & Associés / PUF (P)2013 Groupe Frémeaux Colombini

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Titre: Contre-histoire de la philosophie 20.2 : Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir

Auteur: Michel Onfray

Narrateur: Michel Onfray

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 5 hrs and 36 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 08-21-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir.

"L'écriture de l'histoire de la philosophie occidentale n'est pas neutre : une Grèce prétendument fondatrice à l'exclusion des pensées qui la précèdent dans le temps, une domination idéaliste, notamment platonicienne, une tradition qui poursuit ce parti-pris avec le spiritualisme chrétien et l'idéal allemand - l'historiographie dominante est nettement platonicienne. Or, on peut proposer une contre-histoire de la philosophie qui se soucie d'un autre lignage : matérialiste, hédoniste, nominaliste, athée, sensualiste, empirique, etc. Et s'y inscrire avec le souci d'une pensée systématique."

Michel Onfray

La Contre-histoire de la Philosophie de Michel Onfray s'apparente à un catalogue raisonné de l'histoire de la pensée. Mais un catalogue dans sa version orale et improvisée qui permet par la verve et l'authenticité d'une transmission incarnée de démocratiser le savoir de la Philosophie occidentale.

L'intervenant

, philosophe et écrivain français, né à Argentan le premier janvier 1959, commença par enseigner la philosophie à une classe de terminale du lycée technique de Caen. En 2002, il démissionna de l'Education Nationale afin de créer l'Université Populaire de Caen. Il y enseigne depuis la "contre-histoire de la philosophie" ici présentée. Michel Onfray souhaite formuler une théorie de l'hédonisme au travers de ses ouvrages, et se propose de réconcilier l'homme et son corps. Pour lui, la philosophie est un art de vivre qui permet à l'homme de se débarrasser de ses illusions.

©2013 Michel Onfray / Groupe Frémeaux Colombini (P)2012 / 2013 Radio France / Frémeaux & Associés / Grasset / Université populaire de Caen

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Title: Thomas Aquinas: Philosophy in an Hour

Author: Paul Strathern

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Aquinas in just one hour.

Aquinas' influence stretches far across the western world; much modern philosophy has been conceived as either a reaction against, or in accordance with, his original ideas.

This audiobook showcases an account of Thomas Aquinass life and philosophical ideas - entertainingly written and is above all easy listening. Also included are selections from Thomas Aquinas' work, suggested further reading, and chronologies that place Aquinas in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.

Members Reviews:

Excellent

It is a very well written and informative introduction to the life and the work of Thomas Aquinas.

I recommend this to students of philosophy as an elementary introduction to Aquinas' philosophy.

The text rich and the narrator's performance is exceptional.

Not a lot of philosophy

What would have made Thomas Aquinas: Philosophy in an Hour better?

If there was more actual philosophy of Thomas Aquinas instead of the history around him and the author's opinion about everything.

Has Thomas Aquinas: Philosophy in an Hour put you off other books in this genre?

No, because I don't think this is representative for the genre.

You didnt love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The narration was excellent.

Any additional comments?

The author seems to be quite biased: he continuously makes unfounded subjective comments that give the impression that Christianity is something of a joke.

Can't help feeling profoundly short changed

Good brief account and starting point for anyone curious about Aquinas' philosophy, although even a slightly longer account would be a significant improvement. Not that much commentary on the social impact, for example.

Also, it feels a little colourful in its praise of western intellectualism of the period, which was not as enlightened as in other parts of the world. Even though it's somewhat sarcastic throughout, this seems to be poking fun at the time rather than the place.

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Title: The Fourth Dimension of a Poem

Author: M. H. Abrams

Narrator: Jeffrey Gillespie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic.

In the year of his 100th birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in intellectual and literary history, among them Kant, Keats, and Hazlitt. The centerpiece of the volume is Abramss eloquent and incisive essay "The Fourth Dimension of a Poem" on the pleasure of reading poems aloud, accompanied by online recordings of Abramss revelatory readings of poems such as William Wordsworths "Surprised by Joy", Alfred Tennysons "Here Sleeps the Crimson Petal", and Ernest Dowsons "Cynara". The collection begins with a foreword by Abrams former student Harold Bloom.

Members Reviews:

Excellent Book

Read about it in the NYRB. I found it to be a terrific book and am so pleased I found out about it.

Read poems aloud!

A brilliant explanation supporting the value of reading aloud poems or parts of them, especially important for teachers of introduction to poetry.

Poetry and Philosophy in the Western Canon

My impression of this book was that it was an unique critique of poetry and language, its beauty, its abuse and its potential to humanity, i.e., to make us more human. The author certainly has an enormous breath and deep familiarity of literature, philosophy, and the omnipresence of the impact of the sciences. Though per the author "the material medium of the poem is speech" we certainly do not speak to each other in this way, though in any constructive exchange there can be harmonious sound. I would conclude that poetry is a medium of theatre, songs and ballads, which immediately comes to mind.

My favorite, though not necessarily easy to grasp, chapters are "What is Humanistic Criticism"; "The Language and Methods of Humanism"; "Kant & the Theology of Art"; and "Spiritual Travelers in the Literature of the West."

"Humanistic Criticism" discusses Derrida (deconstructionism) and Descartes (methodical doubt). To the deconstructionists there are "antagonistic forces inhabiting a text that remain forever locked in the "double-bind" of opposed but unresolvable significations.." However no specific examples are provided, whether to classical, popular or current "open verse" poetry. Descartes, though no poet himself, had to doubt his senses and his world of social activity, and by "doubt" to see this as a necessary tool for an objective science.

"The Language and Methods of Humanism" is explored in comparison with the rigors of science. To the author, "when the humanist commits to a language modeled on science...specific human aspects...elude his linguistic grasp." And in a later chapter (p. 136) "there is a bleak theory world of mechanism & dualism..." Terms and concepts from science and literature can often overlap, such as "black hole", and using "Google" as a verb, or in misleading or crude ways such as "Darwinian" or it's all "relative", terms borrowed from science stripped of their exact scientific meaning. Author sprinkles his text with some sage advice as in (p.

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Title: Confucius: Philosophy in an Hour

Author: Paul Strathern

Narrator: Jonathan Keeble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-13

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Confucius in just one hour.

This is the perfect audiobook for people who are on the go and dont have time to read philosophy books but wish they knew more about certain people and how they influenced history. This is a concise, expert account of Confucious life and philosophical ideas - entertainingly written and most importantly easy listening.

Also included are selections from Confucious work, suggested further reading, and chronologies that place Confucious in the context of the broader scheme of philosophy.

Critic Reviews:

Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them...I find them hard to stop reading. (New York Times)

Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. (Wall Street Journal)

Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character... I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. (Boston Globe)

A godsend in this era of the short attention span. (New York Times)

Members Reviews:

Excellent

I recommend this work to anyone interested in Confucianism as a brief overall introduction.

This could be of great use and also informative to students of religious as well as philosophical studies.

I give it a 4 star overall because it could be further improved nonetheless the author has given a balanced and fair account of the topic.

Very entertaining intro to Confucius

I had no prior knowledge of either the life or works of Confucius and after completing this book I feel that I'm able now able to place him both historically and in the general landscape of philosophy, so - mission accomplished!

The main selling point of this book is the humour and the irreverent approach. Paul Strathern doesn't joke for the mere sake of it, but when he comes across something that warrants it, he's very generous with his sarcasm and Jonathan Keeble narrates that beautifully.

Simple yet as precise.

We don't know alot about Confucius, this will help understand him in a short 1hr read. it seems there is less to him than i thought.

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Title: What's Good on TV?

Subtitle: Understanding Ethics Through Television

Author: Jamie Carlin Watson, Robert Arp

Narrator: Vince Bailey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

What's Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television presents an introduction to the basic theories and concepts of moral philosophy using concrete examples from classic and contemporary television shows. Utilizes clear examples from popular contemporary and classic television shows, such as The Office, Law and Order, Star Trek and Family Guy, to illustrate complex philosophical concepts.

Designed to be used as a stand-alone or supplementary introductory ethics text.

Features case studies, study questions, and suggested readings.

Episodes mentioned are from a wide variety of television shows, and are easily accessible.

Offers a balanced treatment of a number of controversial ethical issues including environmental ethics, animal welfare, abortion, homosexuality, capital punishment, assisted suicide, censorship and the erosion of values.

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Title: Wisdom of W.E.B. DuBois

Author: The Wisdom Series

Narrator: Catherine Byers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

At the heart of the African American struggle for equality and identity in the United States, W.E.B. DuBois stands as an early and eloquent voice, articulating the essential challenges of his own age and illuminating the historical basis for the civil rights movement. In this selection of quotes and excerpts drawn from his prolific careers many books, novels, articles, essays, poems, letters, and speeches, DuBois addresses not only the issues of slavery, African American equality, and democracy, but also the need for public education, womens rights, and pacifism. Each subject includes a thorough introduction to DuBoiss role and his time. A founder of the NAACP and its magazine The Crisis, as well as an academic, political, and literary figure in the Harlem Renaissance, DuBois was groundbreaking and controversial, and left an impressive legacy.

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Title: Wisdom of Jane Austen

Author: Jane Austin

Narrator: Camme Tyla

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

For over 150 years, Jane Austen has charmed readers with her keen observations and satirical wit. Although set in the parlors and ballrooms of 19th-century Britain, her novels continue to resonate deeply with readers as her endearingly imperfect characters share their hopes and foibles, passions and disappointments, in their quest for love and ultimately happy marriage. Collected from her novels, early stories, and letters, The Wisdom of Jane Austen shares her witty and timeless views on a range of subjects, from love and marriage, to fashion and duels, and, of course, pride, prejudice, sense, and sensibility.

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Title: Mirrors of the Soul

Author: Kahlil Gibran

Narrator: Ethan Sawyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Kahlil Gibran wrote prolifically and passionately in Arabic as well as English. First published in 1965 with nine works of poetry translated by Joseph Sheban, Mirrors of the Soul includes writings by Gibran that are as poignant today as when first written, such as The New Frontier and The Sea. These poems illuminate the dual nature of Gibran, who lived in the shadows both of New York skyscrapers and the cedars of his childhood Lebanon. Sheban enriches the new works with an insightful biography, a historical examination of politics and religion in Gibrans native land, and the inclusion of revolutionary poems such as My Countrymen and My People Died.

Members Reviews:

Definitely Worth Owning

Gibran is one of my top 5 favorite poets of all time and this was another great addition to the collection. Though not by Gibran himself, this a brief biography and collection of works by another author.

Not by Gibran

I found this book a fascinating history of the life of Gibran. It talks about his early youth in Lebanon, his immigrating to New York and of the writings he did in both English and Lebanese. While I found the book an interesting read, liberally sprinkled with quotes from his works, it was not at all what I expected when I ordered it. The Amazon page implies this is a book written by Gibran, which it is not.

Five Stars

Very happy with my order!

never grows old

Gibran's genius again. Lovely, moving text; never grows old.

Five Stars

Wonderful relic of the past. My friend was very pleased.