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Byung-Chul Han
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Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, user-friendly technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder.
Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.
This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Noble, with audio engineering by Logan Nyman. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Father to Son
- Life Lessons on Raising a Boy
- By: Harry H. Harrison Jr.
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 42 mins
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Warm and fuzzy, anchored in values, and filled with simple words of wisdom, this beloved, best-selling book for parents speaks to the important business of raising sons, and distills their timeless lessons into nuggets of wisdom - some lighthearted, some serious, some practical, and some intangible, and all supported by a strong moral backbone.
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List of What to do, not Why or principles behind it
- By Ben on 02-15-25
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Know-It-All Society
- Truth and Arrogance in Political Culture
- By: Michael P. Lynch
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Taking stock of our fragmented political landscape, Michael Patrick Lynch delivers a trenchant philosophical take on digital culture and its tendency to make us into dogmatic know-it-alls. The internet - where most shared news stories are not even read by the person posting them - has contributed to the rampant spread of "intellectual arrogance". In this culture, we have come to think that we have nothing to learn from one another; we are rewarded for emotional outrage over reflective thought; and we glorify a defensive rejection of those different from us.
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Investigates truth, humility, democracy
- By DK on 10-23-22
By: Michael P. Lynch
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
- By: René Girard
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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An astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. In its scope and interest it can be compared with Freud's Totem and Taboo, the subtext Girard refutes with polemic daring, vast erudition, and a persuasiveness that leaves the listener compelled to respond, one way or another. This is the single fullest summation of Girard's ideas to date, the book by which they will stand or fall.
By: René Girard
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Awaiting God
- A New Translation of Attente De Dieu and Lettre a Un Religieux
- By: Simone Weil
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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These works are considered Weil's primary essays and letters. In addition, Simone Weil's niece has contributed an introductory article entitled, 'Simone Weil and the Rabbi's: Compassion and Tsedekah,' which puts Weil's relationship with Jewish thought into perspective. She includes source material from the Rabbis that put Weil (however reluctantly) in line with rabbinical thought throughout her major themes. The book is the ideal English introduction to the works and thought of Simone Weil.
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You Speak Weil - And Do Not Know So
- By D_r_D_a_n on 11-01-16
By: Simone Weil
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On Mysticism
- The Experience of Ecstasy
- By: Simon Critchley
- Narrated by: Simon Critchley
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Mysticism is about existential ecstasy—an experience of heightening one's senses and self into a sheer feeling of aliveness. Mystical experiences offer us a practical way to open our thoughts and deepen the sense of our lives, whether through a mainstream connection to God or by taking part in mind-altering experiences. Here, Simon Critchley explores the history and practice of mysticism, from its origins in Eastern and Western religion, through its association with esoteric and occult knowledge, and up to the ecstatic modernism of T.S. Eliot and others.
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Thank you Dr. Critchley
- By Kimberley on 04-22-25
By: Simon Critchley
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Anti-Oedipus
- Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- By: Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Michel Foucault - preface, and others
- Narrated by: Jon Orsini
- Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
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When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society.
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Not read in usual way,but Praxis that works on you
- By Anonymous User on 12-27-23
By: Gilles Deleuze, and others
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Fear and Trembling
- By: Søren Kierkegaard
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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From the perspective of an unbeliever, Fear and Trembling explores the paradox of faith, the nature of Christianity, and the complexity of human emotion. Kierkegaard examines the biblical story of Abraham, who was instructed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and forces us to consider Abraham's state of mind. What drove Abraham, and what made him carry out such an absurd and extreme request from God? Kierkegaard argues that Abraham's agreement to sacrifice Isaac, and his suspension of reason, elevated him to the highest level of faith.
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Great book and Formidable Narration
- By MFC on 03-06-20
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The Strategy of Conflict
- By: Thomas C. Schelling
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory - the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering in limited war and in a traffic jam; deterring the Russians and one's own children; the modern strategy of terror and the ancient institution of hostages.
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wow, brand new perspective...
- By Mike on 07-01-18
This book is an important theoretical step along the path to reclaiming the right to self-determine what makes us valuable and worthwhile.
Brilliant
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An awakening!
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A short listen that will make you think and is likely to reach minds that otherwise are not open to this kind of reflection on the modern way of life we’ve collectively created.
Strong case, a good listen for spirituality & philosophy lovers
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Regarding the little bit of substance this book has, it's basically this: because you now have freedom (from god and dictators and diseases), you exploit yourself (because it's hard to choose things and so you choose the zeitgeist, looking good and being rich) and become an exhausted and depressed mindless zombie (because you're never looking good enough and being rich enough). That's it. That's all.
This got turned into a 2 hour long repetitive philosophical jargon.
As someone who completely believes modern societal burnout is real and needs to be addressed (that's why I listened to this in the first place), this book was such a disappointment. Zero substantial discussion of real issues like capitalism, money, inequality, modern slavery, production and resource constraints, identity and tribalism, technology, social media, attention, new ways of communication, and industrialized cognitive behavioral manipulation. So many big, juicy topics and none elaborated. And this guy is just "lol it u". I'm laughing, out loud, for real.
P.S. this book is philosophy 100% (I didn't know this going in). I'm not a philosopher so maybe it's better in those eyes, but even then this comes across as the opposite of wisdom. It's a platitude given form.
90% fluff, 10% substance
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Too many words to say so little
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