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- 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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Shallow and misleading
- By Mark G on 07-17-04
By: Paul Strathern
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Borges in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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Borges in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Borges' 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 Borges' chief works, a chronology of his life and times, and recommended reading for those who wish to delve deeper.
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Why is Strathern so obsessed with Borges sex life?
- By SRP on 02-01-21
By: Paul Strathern
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Beckett in 90 Minutes
- 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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Well done invaluableB
- By Amazon Customer on 11-19-23
By: Paul Strathern
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. He insisted that all experience must conform to knowledge. According to Kant, space and time are subjective; along with various "categories," they help us to see the phenomena of the world, though never its true reality.
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Kant lite
- By CyberMind on 05-25-04
By: Paul Strathern
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Marx in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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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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Save your 90 minutes
- By Derek on 04-15-06
By: Paul Strathern
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The Trial
- By: Franz Kafka
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread. Fortunately, Brod ignored his friend's wishes and published The Trial, which became the author's most famous work. Now Kafka's enigmatic novel regains its humor and stylistic elegance in a new translation based on the restored original manuscript.
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We are all the straw that breaks a camel's back
- By Dan Harlow on 10-14-13
By: Franz Kafka
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Hume in 90 Minutes
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which neither religion nor science is certain.
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A cynical history of philosophy
- By Kindle Customer on 12-07-10
By: Paul Strathern
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- 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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Great intros
- By Peter on 09-05-04
By: Paul Strathern
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- 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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Very Useful for the Beginner
- By Jesse on 05-06-06
By: Paul Strathern
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
- 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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WWF Bodyslam on Hegel
- By quinet on 10-22-05
By: Paul Strathern
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
- 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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A mixed bag
- By RAC on 11-26-05
By: Paul Strathern
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- 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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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- By L Mark Higgins on 08-01-12
By: Paul Strathern
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- 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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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- By L Mark Higgins on 08-01-12
By: Paul Strathern
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- nonrachitect
- 01-02-21
A good book about Kafka
I always wanted to learn more about Kafka and this is a great small-sized book about his work and life and gives clues to how he became so great.
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- Samantha Cohen
- 12-13-20
Excellent
I’ve been listening to a few of these, I think it’s a good way to find out some information if you like the time or the investment to read a full book on something, plus honestly I don’t know if I would’ve run a full book on Kafka. Well I might now, because I found this so fascinating. I can’t tell you if it’s Kafka himself or the way it was told or the way it was performed, because they all work together seamlessly and left me very interested and also retaining information which doesn’t always happen. Thank you
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- tnkumpits
- 10-16-21
I very much enjoyed
it was great how he shared some of Kafka's story at the end. marvelous
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- AS st
- 03-04-22
good
Worthwhile to acquire a basic foundational knowledge of Kafka. I learned plenty. Narration well done.
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