Philosophy audiobooks

The Four Horsemen

By: Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harr...

Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett,...

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an introduction by Stephen Fry.

At the dawn of the... Read more

Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by: John York

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Walden is a work by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and to some degree a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's... Read more

The Natural Mind - Waking Up

By: alan orr

Narrated by: alan orr

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Imagine if just by reading one book you could transform your thinking, open your mind to new possibilities and embark on a mind adventure on a voyage of self discovery that will not only benefit you, your loved ones, friends and family but has the power to benefit humanity. This is that book.
The journey of personal deconstruction is not an easy... Read more

The Queer Art of Failure

By: Jack Halberstam

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Halberstam... Read more

The Sophrology Method

By: Florence Parot

Narrated by: Elisabeth Hopper & Liz Murphy

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Feeling stressed, anxious or burnt-out?

Sophrology is a transformative healthcare philosophy that is designed to help people achieve a calm, alert mind in a relaxed body. Inspired by Eastern philosophies and classical relaxation techniques, Sophrology will help you to become consciously, actively aware of yourself, how you feel, what you want and... Read more

Physics

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Peter Wickham

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

No less a figure than Bertrand Russell remarked that Aristotle's Physics was ‘extremely influential and dominated science until the time of Galileo'. This was despite the fact that this work is as much a collection of ‘lectures on nature' rather than dealing with the science of physics as we understand the term.

Aristotle considers ‘the... Read more

This Life

By: Martin Hägglund

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the René Wellek Prize

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald

A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing social issues of our time, This Life shows why our... Read more

Paradox

By: Jim Al-Khalili

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes.



Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds. For example, how... Read more

El espíritu de la comedia

By: Antonio Escohotado Espinosa

Narrated by: Chema Agulló

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Nada hay más cómico que alguien convencido de salirse con la suya cuando está siendo embaucado. Entre las tragedias que se siguen de la codiciosa comedia puesta en práctica como Desarrollo está el desplazamiento de la riqueza desde el ser al tener. La riqueza que se tiene nunca desbordará un marco de herramientas y adornos, que podemos perder o... Read more

The Egyptian Hieroglyph Metaphysical Language

By: Moustafa Gadalla

Narrated by: Susie Hennessy

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Scientific/metaphysical realities of pictorial images (Hieroglyphs) as the ultimate medium for the human consciousness that interpret, process and maintain the meanings of such images. This book covers the Egyptian Hieroglyph metaphysical language of images/pictures- the language of the mind/intellect/divine; the scientific/metaphysical... Read more

Be Angry

By: His Holiness the Dalai Lama & Noriyuki Ueda

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Simple and accessible wisdom from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on how to use compassionate anger for social transformationIn the real world, exploitation exists. In the real world, there is a huge and unjust gap between rich and poor. The question, from a Buddhist perspective, is how should we deal with inequality and social injustice? His... Read more

The Heretic's Handbook

By: Jonathan Black

Narrated by: Simon Mattacks

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In a universe where mind has power over matter—in a world where conventional, common-sense wisdom cannot help us achieve our highest desires or escape our deepest fears—we need to look to the wisdom of the ancients.In The Heretic’s Handbook, the internationally bestselling author of The Secret History of the World has collected and codified... Read more

Stand Out of Our Light

By: James Williams

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Google advertising executive, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce... Read more

Heinrich von Kleist: Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden

By: Heinrich von Kleist

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Anmut entsteht nur bei völliger Abwesenheit von Bewusstsein, so die Idee, die Kleist im "Marionettentheater" etnwickelt. Und dass "die Idee beim Sprechen entsteht", ist der Kerngedanke des zweiten meisterhaften Aufsatzes des Autoren. Read more

How We Think

By: John Dewey

Narrated by: Helen Smith

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

How We Think by John Dewey was published in 1910. From the preface: "Our schools are troubled with a multiplication of studies, each in turn having its own multiplication of materials and principles. Our teachers find their tasks made heavier in that they have come to deal with pupils individually and not merely in mass. Some clew of unity,... Read more

Thoughts Are Things

By: Prentice Mulford

Narrated by: Helen Smith

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Product text: Thoughts are Things (1889) is a philosophical work by Prentice Mulford. Content: The Material Mind Vs The Spiritual Mind Who Are Our Relations? Thought Currents One Way To Cultivate Courage Look Forward! God In The Trees, The Infinite Mind In Nature Some Laws Of Health And Beauty Museum And Menagerie Horrors The God In... Read more

Beauty

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object—either in... Read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin

By: Victoria Riskin

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)A Hollywood love story, a Hollywood memoir, a dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s golden age, written by their daughter, an acclaimed writer and producer.

Fay Wray was most famous as the woman—the blonde in a... Read more

Die Verknüpfung von Physik und Philosophie

By: Werner Heisenberg

Narrated by: Werner Heisenberg

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Inhalt: 01 Aus meinem Leben Die Verknüpfung philosophischer und physikalischer Probleme 02 Was bedeutet "Verstehen" in der theoretischen Physik? 03 Kant - Demokrit - Plato 04 Die Physik der Elementarteilchen 05 Über die friedliche Nutzung der Atomenergie 06-08 Die Abstraktion in den modernen Naturwissenschaften 09-11 Hausmusik bei... Read more

Why Nationalism

By: Yael Tamir

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook narrated by Juliet Stevenson reveals why nationalism is a permanent political force—and how it can be harnessed once again for liberal ends

Around the world today, nationalism is back—and it’s often deeply troubling. Populist politicians exploit nationalism for authoritarian, chauvinistic, racist, and xenophobic purposes,... Read more

Das Problem des Menschen

By: Ludwig Klages

Narrated by: Ludwig Klages

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Lebensphilosoph Ludwig Klages (1872-1956) gehört zu den leidenschaftlichsten und zugleich umstrittensten deutschen Denkern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als philosophische Prophetenfigur, als konservativer Revolutionär, als radikaler Vordenker der ökologischen Bewegung, aber auch als innovativer Psychologe, welcher der Charakterologie und... Read more

Lebenslinien der Subjektivität - Kybernetische Reflexionen

By: Gotthard Günther

Narrated by: Gotthard Günther & Heinz von Foerster

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Mir geht es um den philosophischen Ort der Zahl." Der aus Schlesien stammende Philosoph Gotthard Günther (1900-1984) gilt als Begründer einer transklassischen, mehrwertigen Logik mit ihrer Anwendung auf die Computertheorie und die Probleme der technischen Reproduzierbarkeit von Bewußtseinsfunktionen. Seine generalisierte Stellenwerttheorie... Read more

Just Giving

By: Rob Reich

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today's democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society's benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn't the unassailable good we think it to be but might also undermine democratic values and set back aspirations of justice. Big philanthropy... Read more

2 x 2 = grün

By: Heinz von Foerster

Narrated by: Heinz von Foerster

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Der in Wien geborene Erkenntnistheoretiker Heinz von Foerster war ein leidenschaftlicher und charismatischer Erzähler. Bei seinen Büchern handelt es sich durchweg um Transkriptionen, Verschriftlichungen von Vorträgen oder Interviews. Diese Tatsache verdeutlicht bereits die Wichtigkeit des gesprochenen Wortes in seiner Arbeit. Höchste Zeit also,... Read more