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Title: Wisdom of Sigmund Freud

Author: The Wisdom Series

Narrator: Catherine Byers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-19-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

An invaluable guide to Freuds terminology and work

Repression, ego, analysis, neurosis - the language of psychology permeates our modern vocabulary. The brilliant observations of Sigmund Freud form not only the basis for psychoanalysis but also much of our current understanding of the human condition. This essential and approachable guide offers an A-to-Z glossary of terminology defined in Freuds own words, including his diagnostic and treatment recommendations and his well-known works, including dream interpretation, the Oedipal complex, and the practice of psychoanalysis.

This edition features a new introduction and a timeline of the life of Sigmund Freud.

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Titre: Sade

Sous-titre: Déconstruction d'un mythe

Auteur: Michel Onfray

Narrateur: Michel Onfray

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 01-21-13

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Sujet d'intense fascination, le Marquis de Sade a acquis au fil des décennies une image qui relève du mythe. En occultant, détournant et justifiant les faits historiques, de nombreux intellectuels du XXème siècle interprètent avec complaisance la vie et la littérature du Marquis jusqu'à l'ériger en symbole. Briseur de tabous, libérateur de la sexualité, Révolutionnaire et féministe avant l'heure ? La réalité du personnage est autre.

Avec clarté et précision, Michel Onfray dévoile la philosophie du Marquis. Le retour aux sources historiques et à l'intégralité de ses écrits met fin au doute : son image de progressiste est usurpée. Dernier philosophe de la féodalité, le Marquis de Sade est enfin identifié, analysé, déconstruit.

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.

©2012 Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS (P)2010-2011 Michel Onfray - Frémeaux & Associés

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Title: Introduction to Metaphysics AudioLearn Follow Along Manual

Subtitle: AudioLearn Philosophy Series

Author: AudioLearn Editors

Narrator: AudioLearn Voice Over Team

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-13

Publisher: AudioLearn

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Whether you are enrolled in a formal program of education or simply want to know more about a subject, AudioLearn can provide you a quick and easy survey. Each title was created by professionals with direct experience in the subject to which you're enjoying.

We will introduce and define the subject of Metaphysics, discuss major areas of the study, defining Ontology, Theology, Science, Teleology, and others. We will look at some fundamental problems in Metaphysics and conclude with thoughts on the nature of the Universe.

Members Reviews:

Four Stars

Good introductory course

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Title: The Witness of Poetry

Subtitle: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Author: Czeslaw Milosz

Narrator: Peter Bishop

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-24-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe", a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm and detached, flooded with specific memory yet never hermetic or provincial.

Milosz addresses many of the major problems of contemporary poetry, beginning with the pessimism and negativism prompted by reductionist interpretations of man's animal origins. He examines the tendency of poets since Mallarmé to isolate themselves from society, and stresses the need for the poet to make himself part of the great human family. One chapter is devoted to the tension between classicism and realism; Milosz believes poetry should be "a passionate pursuit of the real". In "Ruins and Poetry" he looks at poems constructed from the wreckage of a civilization, specifically that of Poland after the horrors of World War II. Finally, he expresses optimism for the world, based on a hoped-for better understanding of the lessons of modern science, on the emerging recognition of humanity's oneness, and on mankind's growing awareness of its own history.

Critic Reviews:

"By the strength of its condensed and lucid exposition,

The Witness of Poetry

provides us with a key to Milosz's poetic historiosophy, philosophy, and aesthetics. Of course, Milosz's entire work offers one of the most profound responses to the dilemmas of our century." (New Criterion)

"Milosz is at all times direct, even simple. He has the ability to return the pleasure of poetry to ordinary readers, and in his prose, as here, he makes you suspect that the great intellectual sin of our time may be a fear of the obvious." (

Vanity Fair)

"[Milosz] speaks in

The Witness of Poetry with the sort of quiet, preeminent brilliance that makes his defense [of poetry]...a classic for our time." (

Saturday Review)

Members Reviews:

Audible needs more university press books

Fantastic narration job, and I'm glad to see accessible lectures and thought provoking lectures offered through audible. This merits multiple listens and thus the price tag for such a short audiobook. Narration was fantastic!

Poetry's Witness of Us

The lectures are oracular and wide-ranging, a visionary view of poetry at the end of a brutally violent centurybut one that nevertheless looks with hope to the future, both poetry's and humanity's.

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Title: Testaments Betrayed

Subtitle: An Essay in Nine Parts

Author: Milan Kundera, Linda Asher (translator)

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-12

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality, and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. In Testaments Betrayed, he proves himself a brilliant defender of the moral rights of the artist and the respect due to a work of art and its creator's wishes. The betrayal of both - often by their most passionate proponents - is the principal theme of this extraordinary work. Listeners will be particularly intrigued by Kundera's impassioned attack on society's shifting moral judgments and persecutions of art and artists, from Mayakovsky to Rushdie.

Members Reviews:

testament betrayed

The book itself is good, but the copy sent to us left a lot to be desired, since it had been used in a library.

Ecstasy, Climax, Negation (Oblivion)

Hello, I started reading a borrowed copy of Testaments Betrayed (HarperCollins Publishers, 1995) and when I got to the sentence on p'85 "Through ecstasy, emotion reaches its climax, and thereby at the same time its negation (it's oblivion)." I had to have my own copy. I ordered a copy on Amazon, the Harper Perennial edition published in 2001 and before I continued reading, I looked again for this sentence, wanting to savor it - and it was not there. It seems to have been omitted. Now this sentence, to me, is the center-piece of the book, a key lens through which to see Kundera and his work, and a key lens through which he wishes us to see existence. I offer it here as a way to add to the interpretive endeavor for those folk who may not see this sentence in the edition they own. I shall have to find a copy of the edition I had started reading, as I can't be without either this book, a magisterial tour de force written by a master, or that sentence, which, in its absence, I want from time to time to re-read, and when re-reading it, be transported again into an ecstatic reverie in just the way Kundera describes it.

Freedom

The fact that friends or opera bosses didn't respect the scores or the testaments of artists or had the power to impose their own vision on other's work, is for Milan Kundera an occasion to reflect on the history and rules of art and the novel, the freedom of the artist and ultimately, on freedom of speech.

His main examples are Franz Kafka (Max Brod didn't respect his testament which ordered to destroy all non published work) and Leos Janácek (whose opera score was `adapted' by an opera director).

Art has an autonomous status, its own laws. Art is not an imitation of reality. It is a unique expression of an individual. It is therefore logical that this individual possesses all rights over a work that emanates exclusively from him.

Moreover, one doesn't need biographical furor (Sainte-Beuve), to know the writer, painter or composer in order to understand his work.

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Title: The Flight from God

Author: Max Picard

Narrator: Robin Lawson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-12

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

In this powerful classic, the eminent Swiss philosopher Max Picard argues that though the flight from God is not a phenomenon unique to this age, man has nevertheless put himself and society in an extremely dangerous situation with the progressive secularization of Western culture. In the age of faith, Picard says, a man had to make a conscious decision to separate himself from the world of faith. Today, the world, not just the individual, is in flight, and men must extricate themselves from modernity and make a deliberate decision to find and affirm faith.

Gabriel Marcel says Picard is among the few who appear capable of redirecting the thinking elite toward an awakening of reason, without which it is impossible not to despair of mankind. The Flight from God is one of the most acute, and yet hopeful, analyses of modern man and society.

Members Reviews:

Good for

Philosophical, poetic, densely written but very thought provoking at times. Good for meditation

Attempt of mankind to run from the presence of God

In this powerful, classic book, first published in 1934, the eminent Swiss existential philosopher Max Picard argues that though the "flight from God" is not a phenomenon unique to this age, man has nevertheless put himself and society in an extremely dangerous situation with the progressive secularization of Western culture. In the Age of Faith, Picard says, a man had to make a conscious decision to separate himself from the world of Faith. Today, the world, not just the individual, is in flight, and men must extricate themselves from modernity and make a deliberate decision to find and affirm Faith. Gabriel Marcel says Picard is "among the few who appear capable of redirecting the thinking elite toward an awakening of reason, without which it is impossible not to despair of mankind."The FLIGHT FROM GOD is one of the most acute, and yet hopeful, analyses of modern man and society.

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Title: Brave New World Economy

Subtitle: Global Finance Threatens Our Future

Author: Wilhelm Hankel, Robert Isaak

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

Publisher's Summary:

An engaging look at the road to a sustained economic recovery

The global finance system can be regulated to prevent massive credit fraud, tame capitalism, confront the sovereign debt crisis, and move towards investing in the real economy and full employment. "Obamanomics", and American reinvention can lead to a sustained economic recovery but only together with major domestic, European, and global monetary reforms in cooperation with emerging nations.

For decades, the U.S. dollar has served as the world's reserve currency. But after the global market meltdown and the resulting massive stimulus spending meant to keep the Great Recession from becoming an even Greater Depression, confidence in America's ability to make good on its growing debt is at all-time lows. In Brave New World Economy: Global Finance Threatens Our Future, Wilhelm Hankel and Robert Isaak two extremely controversial, yet highly respected experts on international economics and management describe how "Obamanomics," the Euro crisis, and shift of economic growth from the West to emerging economies, if handled properly, can lead to true economic stability and job creation.

Members Reviews:

Crap.

What disappointed you about Brave New World Economy?

I found the "facts" to be half researched and the conclusions drawn not interesting or believable. I could not finish this book. Got through about 3-4 hours and just moved on.

What aspect of Dennis Hollands performance would you have changed?

The performance was fine. Content was iffy at best.

Any additional comments?

If you are politically aligned with the author, you may enjoy this book more than I.

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Titre: Arthur Schopenhauer

Sous-titre: L'œuvre philosophique expliquée

Auteur: Luc Ferry

Narrateur: Luc Ferry

Format: Original Recording

Durée: 2 hrs and 7 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 07-31-12

Éditeur: Frémeaux & Associés

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 5 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Il est impossible d'entrer vraiment dans la philosophie si l'on ne prend pas le temps de comprendre en profondeur au moins un grand philosophe."

Luc Ferry

Premier grand philosophe contemporain, Schopenhauer ouvre l'ère du soupçon, l'ère de l'inconscient de Marx, de Freud et de Nietzsche. Bien que sa déconstruction des idées traditionnelles le conduise au constat de l'absurdité de la vie, son pessimisme n'est que provisoire. Par l'art, la morale, la sagesse, Schopenhauer nous arrache à nos peurs et entame la construction d'une doctrine du salut. Sa philosophie est un apprentissage de la vie dont le but est de nous mener à un art du bonheur.

L'intervenant

"

, comme tous les philosophes est d'abord un professeur de philosophie. En effet, philosopher au XXIe siècle n'a de sens qu'en prenant en compte l'histoire de cette discipline qui transforme tous les penseurs en héritiers. Luc Ferry propose pour la première fois des cours dans une langue simple, permettant en 3 à 4 heures d'accéder à une approche des idées d'un grand philosophe et les clés essentielles pour pouvoir ensuite aborder son oeuvre."

Patrick Frémeaux

©2012 Frémeaux & Associés / Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS (P)2012 Frémeaux & Associés / Groupe Frémeaux Colombini SAS

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Title: Emerson's Essays: CliffsNotes

Author: Charles W. Mignon

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-12

Publisher: CliffsNotes on Brilliance Audio

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

The CliffsNotes study guide on Emerson's Essays supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Essays.

Reading a literary work doesnt mean that you immediately grasp the major themes and devices used by the author; this study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Emerson's Essays. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more. For further information on Emerson's Essays, check out the CliffsNotes Resource Center at www.cliffsnotes.com.

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Titel: Warum gibt es alles und nicht nichts?

Autor:: Richard David Precht

Erzähler: Richard David Precht, Caroline Mart

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 3 hrs and 40 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 01-13-12

Herausgeber: Der Hörverlag

Bewertung: 4.5 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

Kategorien: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Kinder sind die klügsten Frager: Woher kommen wir? Bin ich ich? Dürfen wir Tiere essen? Warum sollen wir die Natur schützen? Richard David Precht gibt erneut Antworten auf die großen Fragen des Lebens. Angeregt von seinem Sohn Oskar erklärt Richard David Precht in zahlreichen Geschichten und anschaulichen Beispielen jungen Menschen die Welt. Leicht und humorvoll spüren Richard David Precht, Caroline Mart und Oskar in ihrer Lesung den großen Themen des Lebens nach und laden zum kurzweiligen philosophischen Streifzug ein.

©2011 Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München, in der Verlagsgruppe Random House (P)2011 Der Hörverlag

Kritik Bewertungen:

Pädagogisch wertvoll und unterhaltsam.

-- Brigitte

Spannend, witzig, und unterhaltsam - eine ganz und gar untypische Lesung über philosophische Themen - wunderbar präsentiert.

-- Abendzeitung