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The Florentines
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened that transformed the entire culture of Western civilisation. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born or emerge in an entirely new guise. The ideas that broke this mould largely began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in the province of Tuscany.
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Interesting overview of key characters
- By M Turner on 26-10-21
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The Florentines
- Narrated by: Rupert Bush
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-06-21
- Language: English
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- 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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Must read if you're interested in European history
- By Liam on 16-10-20
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The Borgias
- Power and Depravity in Renaissance Italy
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Philosophy has always been dangerous for philosophers; Friedrich Nietzsche made it dangerous for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness which was to ravage Europe throughout the first half of the 20th century, drawing a chilling parallel with the insanity that gripped Nietzsche towards the end of his life. His philosophy is one of aphorisms and penetrating psychological insights, his major concept being the Will to Power - a notion that he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts.
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Disappointed
- By Kuleshov on 14-01-17
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Nietzsche: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 30-05-13
- Language: English
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Foucault: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Foucault in just one hour. The French philosopher Michel Foucault set about his task rather like a historian. After painstaking research, he concluded that knowledge and power were intimately related throughout history.
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Interesting but...
- By Joanna on 10-11-16
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Foucault: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-07-13
- Language: English
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Locke en 90 minutos [Locke in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos 27 [90 minutes, Book 27]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Sergio Mejía
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Locke gastó gran parte de su tiempo escribiendo largas cartas floridas a mujeres libres, pero nunca llegó a casarse y terminó viviendo en platónico ménage à trois con un miembro del Parlamento por Essex y su esposa. Locke ha sido el único gran filósofo en llegar a ministro, a pesar de que su filosofía era revolucionaria y sirvió de inspiración tanto a la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos como a la Revolución francesa.
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Locke en 90 minutos [Locke in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos 27 [90 minutes, Book 27]
- Narrated by: Sergio Mejía
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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Hegel en 90 minutos [Hegel in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos, libro 11 [90 Minutes, Book 11]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Bobby Sanchez
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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En Hegel en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern presenta un recuento conciso y experto de la vida e ideas de Hegel, y explica su influencia en la lucha del hombre por comprender su existencia en el mundo. El libro incluye una selección de escritos de Hegel, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas para aquellos que deseen profundizar en su pensamiento y cronología que sitúan a Hegel en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.
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Hegel en 90 minutos [Hegel in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos, libro 11 [90 Minutes, Book 11]
- Narrated by: Bobby Sanchez
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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Crick, Watson y el ADN en 90 minutos [Crick, Watson and DNA in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos 16 [90 Minutes, Book 16]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Marco Lubián
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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Con el descubrimiento del ADN –el elemento básico de la vida– Crick y Watson influyeron en el desarrollo de la humanidad no solo en el ámbito científico, con la clonación y la investigación médica, sino también en nuestra vida diaria con la manipulación genética de los alimentos o la medicina forense. El descubrimiento del ADN también ha provocado serios dilemas éticos.
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Crick, Watson y el ADN en 90 minutos [Crick, Watson and DNA in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos 16 [90 Minutes, Book 16]
- Narrated by: Marco Lubián
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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Hume en 90 minutos [Hume in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos 20 [90 Minutes, Book 20]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Sergio Mejía
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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En Hume en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del gran pensador de la Ilustración escocesa. El libro incluye una selección de citas de sus escritos y cronologías que sitúan a Hume en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.
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Hume en 90 minutos [Hume in 90 Minutes]
- 90 minutos 20 [90 Minutes, Book 20]
- Narrated by: Sergio Mejía
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 01-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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Marx en 90 minutos [Marx in 90 Minutes]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Adrian Ogazón
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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En Marx en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern expone de manera clara y concisa la vida e ideas del gran filósofo de la emancipación humana. 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 Marx en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.
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Marx en 90 minutos [Marx in 90 Minutes]
- Narrated by: Adrian Ogazón
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-09-24
- Language: Spanish
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Maquiavelo en 90 minutos [Machiavelli in 90 Minutes]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Marco Lubián
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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El nombre de Maquiavelo produce todavía escalofríos; sigue siendo sinónimo del mal a casi 500 años de su muerte. Y sin embargo, Maquiavelo no era un hombre malvado. Intentó que su filosofía del Estado fuera científica, esto es, que no hubiera en ella espacio para el sentimiento o la compasión ni, en última instancia, para la moral. Los consejos de Maquiavelo a un príncipe sobre cómo conservar el poder y gobernar con la mayor ventaja posible para sí mismo son muy racionales y penetrantes en lo psicológico.
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Maquiavelo en 90 minutos [Machiavelli in 90 Minutes]
- Narrated by: Marco Lubián
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 30-09-24
- Language: Spanish
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Arquímedes y la palanca en 90 minutos [Archimedes and the Lever in 90 Minutes]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Julio Alcaraz
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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Arquímedes es uno de los tres matemáticos más grandes de todos los tiempos. Revolucionó lo mecánica con su descubrimiento del punto de apoyo y lo palanca y también inventó, entre otros, lo bomba de agua y la polea. Lo exclamación "Eureka" es de todos conocido pero, ¿por qué dijo que era capaz de mover el mundo? ¿y qué es hoy de sus obras perdidas? Arquímedes y la palanca nos presenta un brillante retrato de este genial científico y matemático. Nos muestra sus conocimientos y sus increíbles inventos enmarcados en su contexto histórico y científico.
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Arquímedes y la palanca en 90 minutos [Archimedes and the Lever in 90 Minutes]
- Narrated by: Julio Alcaraz
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Release date: 30-09-24
- Language: Spanish
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Confucio en 90 minutos [Confucius in 90 Minutes]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Edgar Puente
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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De la vida de Confucio, cuya filosofía ha conformado las vidas de millones de seres humanos durante más de dos milenios, lo desconocemos casi todo. Las reglas de conducta que nos legara perduran, pese a que apenas conservamos una breve compilación de aforismos y máximas llevada a cabo por sus discípulos directos, y algunas citas dispersas en textos posteriores.
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Confucio en 90 minutos [Confucius in 90 Minutes]
- Narrated by: Edgar Puente
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 30-09-24
- Language: Spanish
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Aristóteles en 90 minutos [Aristotle in 90 Minutes]
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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Aristóteles fue preceptor de Alejandro Magno. La historia no registra detalles de esta relación, pero sabemos que, con el tiempo, Alejandro estuvo a punto de firmar la sentencia de muerte de su maestro, si bien acabó por olvidarse del tema y, en su lugar, se dispuso a invadir la India. De no ser por este golpe de suerte, habríamos perdido al hombre cuya filosofía había de dominar el pensamiento occidental durante cerca de dos milenios.
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Aristóteles en 90 minutos [Aristotle in 90 Minutes]
- Narrated by: Antonio Raluy
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 30-09-24
- Language: Spanish
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Kant: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Kant in just one hour. Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never travelled farther than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. Appropriately, his philosophy strenuously denies that all knowledge is derived from experience, insisting instead that all experience must conform to knowledge. Kant’s aim was to restore metaphysics.
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Good Intro to Kant
- By Amazon Customer on 11-07-18
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Kant: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-08-13
- Language: English
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Plato: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to this succinct account of the philosophy of Plato in just one hour. Plato is still seen by many as the greatest of all philosophers, inspiring many of the finest thinkers through the ages. Indeed, many see all later philosophy as nothing but attempts to answer the questions he raised. He founded the Academy, the world’s first university, in 387 BC and taught that the physical world is not reality but rather a reproduction of the true source.
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Good introduction for beginners to Philosophy.
- By Matt on 28-07-15
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Plato: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-08-13
- Language: English
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Spinoza: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Spinoza in just one hour.Spinoza’s brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic axioms (assumptions), by means of a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God – one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism.
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You will not learn much about Spinoza's philosophy
- By Auguste Dupin on 13-05-21
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Spinoza: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonthan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-06-13
- Language: English
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
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It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. 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, England, and even in Italy itself. Following a sequence of major figures, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as significant a role as the Italian Renaissance in bringing our modern world into being.
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The Other Renaissance
- From Copernicus to Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 14 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Philosophy for busy people. Listen to a succinct account of the philosophy of Kierkegaard in just one hour.Although Kierkegaard was not a philosopher in the academic sense, he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn’t write about the world, he wrote about life – how we live and how we choose to live, particularly focusing on the individual and the notion of his (or her) existence.
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Very good
- By Christopher on 13-12-13
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Kierkegaard: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 27-06-13
- Language: English
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Marx: Philosophy in an Hour
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Karl Marx's philosophical critique of capitalism and his solution of communism directly led to the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. Whilst this great venture has now all but completely failed, Marx’s philosophy has proved to be arguably the most influential of the 20th century; the influence of Marxism can be seen in subjects as diverse as the infamous policies of Joseph Stalin to many of the progressive humanitarian reforms of the 20th century. The audiobook is an expert account of Marx’s life and philosophical ideas - entertainingly written and above all easy listening.
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A biased biography of Marx
- By Broken English on 12-07-19
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Marx: Philosophy in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 25-07-13
- Language: English
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Dark Brilliance
- By: Paul Strathern
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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Focusing on key characters from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries, including Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Newton, Descartes, Spinoza, Louis XIV and Charles I, Dark Brilliance is a fascinating and wide-ranging history that explores the human costs of imposing progress and modernity.
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Dark Brilliance
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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