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SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as gender as performance, feminism, and queer theory. Featured content also includes commentary, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.
First published in 1990, Gender Trouble makes a groundbreaking case for rejecting an essential female identity as the basis for feminist practice. Using poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, French and American feminism, and linguistics, Butler creates groundbreaking theory of gender identity.
This audio study guide presents the same expert content - written by experienced teachers, professors, and literary scholars - in an easy-to-access audio format. SuperSummary study guides demonstrate an authoritative voice, present expert analysis, offer big picture ideas, and help listeners understand a work’s underlying meanings and conclusions.
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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5 out of 5 stars
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
- Thinkers of the New Left
- De: Roger Scruton
- Narrado por: Rory Barnett
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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From one of the leading critics of leftist orientations comes a study of the thinkers who have most influenced the attitudes of the New Left. Beginning with a ruthless analysis of New Leftism and concluding with a critique of the key strands in its thinking, Roger Scruton conducts a reappraisal of such major left-wing thinkers as E. P. Thompson, Ronald Dworkin, R. D. Laing, Jurgen Habermas, Gyorgy Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Slavoj Žižek, Ralph Milliband, and Eric Hobsbawm. Scruton delivers a critique of modern left-wing thinking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deconstructing the New Left
- De Wayne en 01-17-20
De: Roger Scruton
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In Defense of History
- De: Richard J. Evans
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation to the critical application of social and economic theory, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans defends this commitment to historical knowledge from the attacks of postmodernist critics who deny the possibility of achieving any kind of certain knowledge about the past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De David A en 07-03-18
De: Richard J. Evans
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What Love Is
- And What It Could Be
- De: Carrie Jenkins
- Narrado por: Carrie Jenkins
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Philosophy Is and What It Could Be
- De Amazon Customer en 03-09-17
De: Carrie Jenkins
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A Secular Age
- De: Charles Taylor
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 42 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs Guest Narrators for French and German
- De Norman en 06-13-15
De: Charles Taylor
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The Social Construction of Reality
- A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
- De: Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h
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Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of "social construction" into the social sciences for the first time. In it, Berger and Luckmann reformulate the task of the sociological subdiscipline that, since Max Scheler, has been known as the sociology of knowledge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overwhelming the first listen
- De Fabian en 04-24-18
De: Peter L. Berger, y otros
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment
- The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief
- De: George M. Marsden
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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In the aftermath of World War II, the United States stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed by the war had led to astonishing advances in daily life, but technology and mass culture also threatened to erode the country's traditional moral character. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the American Enlightenment, postwar Americans looked to the country's secular liberalelites for guidance in this precarious time, but these intellectuals proved unable to articulate a coherent common cause by which America could chart its course.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Such a relevant book to our current world
- De Adam Shields en 09-14-16
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- De: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good brain workout
- De ThomasC en 04-09-19
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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
- The Ideas That Have Shaped Our World
- De: Philip Stokes
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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This engaging and accessible book invites the listener to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of 100 of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition - covering philosophical, scientific, political, and religious thought over a period of 2500 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unpretentious, honest, with a big picture
- De Mike S. en 05-29-17
De: Philip Stokes
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Not Gay
- Sex Between Straight White Men
- De: Jane Ward
- Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 113
Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: There's fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other's penises and stick fingers up their fellow members' anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and, last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Extreme Feminism and Liberalism
- De David McDougall en 01-17-18
De: Jane Ward
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Truth and Truthfulness
- De: Bernard Williams
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combinationof passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Content is excellent but the sound quality falters
- De Andy B. en 09-08-23
De: Bernard Williams
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The Demon in Democracy
- Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
- De: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important book on political philosophy
- De Wayne en 08-02-19
De: Ryszard Legutko, y otros
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Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
- De: Sigmund Freud
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is remembered as the father of psychoanalysis. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) is one of his key works, written three decades after his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams. In it he considers the conflict between the needs of the individual acting both egotistically and altruistically in the pursuit of happiness and the myriad demands of civilised society and the ensuing tensions this clash of needs and demands generates.
De: Sigmund Freud
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On Augustine
- De: Rowan Williams
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge), Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new audiobook, he turns his attention to St Augustine. St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory ( The City of God) and, through his Confessions, to the understanding of human psychology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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thoughtful take.
- De Michael McGuire en 04-17-22
De: Rowan Williams
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Down Girl
- The Logic of Misogyny
- De: Kate Manne
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 374
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Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the "bad" women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five Star Book w/bad Narration
- De Cherrybomb en 02-08-19
De: Kate Manne
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The Soul of the World
- De: Roger Scruton
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today’s fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive - and to understand what we are - is to acknowledge the reality of sacred things.
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4 out of 5 stars
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"Against Reductionism"
- De Edmund Schilvold en 10-08-15
De: Roger Scruton
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The Master and His Emissary
- The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
- De: Iain McGilchrist
- Narrado por: Dennis Kleinman
- Duración: 27 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain - the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the "rational" side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Master and His Emissary
- De Michael en 11-07-20
De: Iain McGilchrist