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 71 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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    • Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
    • By: Sarah Bakewell
    • Narrated by: Davina Porter
    • Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 629 ratings
    • This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual....

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    • A Spiritual Life
    • By: Scott M. Marshall
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Never before has a book like this one delved into the spiritual odyssey of cultural icon Bob Dylan. Tracking an American original - from his Jewish roots to his controversial embrace of Jesus....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 613 ratings
    • Spinoza's system and conclusions have compelling beauty unequaled in the history of philosophy....

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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 110 ratings
    • With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader.

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 458 ratings
    • 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....

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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 141 ratings
    • The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution....

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    • A Life of Pliny
    • By: Daisy Dunn
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his 37-volume Natural History, and a teenaged nephew who revered him as a father....

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    • 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 65 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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    • 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 23 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 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 158 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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    • 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 2,150 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.

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,088 ratings
    • Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams....

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    • Letters from a Stoic (All 124 Letters), Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, The Enchiridion, Of Peace of Mind, Of Anger, Of Providence, The Discourses of Epictetus, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments Attributed to Epictetus, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: The Stoics, & Marcus Aurelius Biography
    • By: Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, John Lord
    • Narrated by: Museum Audiobooks cast
    • Length: 51 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic thought founded in Athens in the third century BC, was one of the most sublime philosophies in the history of Western civilization. It is a way of living that focuses on reality instead of fantasy or idealism....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 411 ratings
    • 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....

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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 191 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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    • The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
    • By: Patrick Boucheron
    • Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that resonate as strongly today as they did in his time....

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