Philosopher Biography

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    • The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
    • By: Clare Carlisle
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence....

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    • A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests....

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    • The Life of Kurt Gödel
    • By: Stephen Budiansky
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution....

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    • By: George Steiner
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader.

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    • A Life of Compassion Beyond Boundaries
    • By: Roshen Dalal
    • Narrated by: Suyash Mohan
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Among the most famous visionaries of our times, J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986) continues to transform thought, lifestyles and education across continents more than three decades after his death....

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    • The Stoic Emperor
    • By: Donald J. Robertson
    • Narrated by: Donald J. Robertson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.

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    • David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Vividly written, The Infidel and the Professor is a compelling account of a great friendship of two towering Enlightenment thinkers that had great consequences for modern thought....

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    • C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life
    • By: Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 514 ratings
    • Renowned psychiatrist and educator Armand Nicholi here presents a fascinating comparison of the beliefs of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis....

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    • The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
    • By: Joel L. Kraemer
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • This first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Julia Annas
    • Narrated by: Julia Whelan
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the listener into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with philosophical problems....

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    • The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
    • By: Albert Einstein
    • Narrated by: Henry Leyva
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An inspiring collection of essays, in which Albert Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher, and humanitarian....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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    • By: C. G. Jung
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188 ratings
    • In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon morphed into an altogether more profound undertaking.

    Regular price: $25.00

    • Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
    • By: Zachary D. Carter
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 22 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 713 ratings
    • At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history....

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    • A Life
    • By: Joanne Paul
    • Narrated by: Ben Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-25
    • Language: English
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    • The definitive biography of the man who dominated political and intellectual circles in England during the sixteenth century: Thomas More.

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    • The Presocratics and Sophists
    • By: Robin Waterfield
    • Narrated by: Adrian Hobart
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This volume contains a translation of all the most important fragments of the Presocratics and Sophists, and of the most informative testimonia from ancient sources....

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    • The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century's Most Inquiring Mind
    • By: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone form Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges....

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    • A Cautionary Tale of Sex Tourism, Drugs, Alcoholism, Addiction, Prostitution & Suicide
    • By: Paul Pisces
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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