Philosophy audiobooks

Sternstunden der Philosophie - Abridged

By: Otto Böhmer

Narrated by: Achim Höppner & Anja Buczkowsky

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bei Pascal war es eine Eingebung wie durch "Feuer", bei Schopenhauer der Anblick von Galeerensklaven, bei Wittgenstein ein Theaterstück, bei Heidegger ein Feldweg. Diese kleine Geschichte der "Erweckungserlebnisse" großer Denker von Platon bis Heidegger ist zugleich eine kurzweilige Einführung in Grundgedanken der abendländischen... Read more

Das neue Weltbild des Physikers Burkhard Heim - Abridged

By: Burkhard Heim

Narrated by: Detlef Kügow

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Englische Zeitungen sahen in ihm den "neuen Einstein". "Steht den Deutschen ein neues Weltbild bevor?" fragte der Stern 1957 in einem Artikel über den fast blinden und tauben sowie Handlosen Physiker Burkhard Heim. Es sieht so aus, als könnte die Frage heute mit "ja" beantwortet werden. Heim vollendet Einsteins Ansätze zu einer einheitlichen... Read more

Das Philosophenportal - Abridged

By: Robert Zimmer

Narrated by: Martin Umbach & Anja Buczkowsky

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Kurzbesichtigung von 16 zentralen Werken der Philosophiegeschichte als Hörbuch enthält folgende Themen: Platon: Der Staat Augustinus: Bekenntnisse Machiavelli: Der Fürst Montaigne: Essais Descartes: Abhandlung über die Methode Pascal: Gedanken Locke: Zwei Abhandlungen über die Regierung Kant: Kritik der reinen Vernunft... Read more

Philosophische Grundbegriffe: Philosophie - Erkenntnis - Wahrheit - Gut - Abridged

By: Rafael Ferber

Narrated by: Detlef Kügow

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Diese kleine Denkschule für Studierte und interessierte Laien führt den Leser verständlich und anspruchsvoll zugleich in die wichtigsten Grundbegriffe der Philosophie ein: Philosophie, Erkenntnis, Wahrheit und das Gute. Inhalt, Methode und Geschichte dieser Disziplin werden auf originelle Weise philosophierend nahe gebracht. Read more

Identität - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Narrated by: Wilhelm Vossenkuhl

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls I für Philosophie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München. Er beschäftigt sich in dieser Folge der Reihe "uni-auditorium" mit der Frage "Wer bin ich?" Mit dieser Frage beschäftigten wir uns meistens dann, wenn es uns besonders schwer fällt, darauf zu antworten. Wie können wir... Read more

Einführung in das Werk Theodor Adornos - Abridged

By: Christoph Demmerling

Narrated by: Christoph Demmerling

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Dichte von Adornos Texten erfordert eine Art von Aufmerksamkeit, die der Aufmerksamkeit beim analytischen Hören eines Musikstücks vergleichbar ist. Auch deshalb, und nicht nur, weil die Musik ein wichtiges Sujet der philosophischen Arbeit Adornos ist, würde sich die von ihm gelegentlich gebrauchte Formulierung "mit den Ohren denken" als... Read more

Body Transformation Inside-Out

By: Tricia Brennan

Narrated by: Tricia Brennan

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you tried everything and can't lose weight? Find diet or exercise alone don't work? Hold a distorted body image? Tap into your inherent power to facilitate positive changes and alter the way you think, feel and look! Use creative visualisation to help you build your confidence and reshape your body. Body Transformation Inside-Out uses the... Read more

The Art of Balance

By: Tricia Brennan

Narrated by: Tricia Brennan

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This recording provides meditations based on the emotional spectrum of colours. Individual colours have a different effect on your emotional state. For example, notice how you feel when you imagine a cool green, a bright red, or a dusky mauve. Your senses are directly connected to your emotions. By selecting the appropriate colour for the... Read more

Lost Triumph

By: Tom Carhart

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating narrative-and a bold new thesis in the study of the Civil War-that suggests Robert E. Lee had a heretofore undiscovered strategy at Gettysburg that, if successful, could have crushed the Union forces and changed the outcome of the war.



The Battle of Gettysburg is the pivotal moment when the Union forces repelled perhaps America's... Read more

Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion.After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years... Read more

Hume in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything—except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which... Read more

Sartre in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

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 when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the... Read more

Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense, yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live, and how we choose to live. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective... Read more

Marx in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely failed. Yet the force of the communist belief... Read more

Heidegger in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was Wittgenstein's linguistic analysis. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and his fundamental question: "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question was beyond the reach of reason and was the primary "given" of every individual life. To... Read more

Hegel in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Hegel’s dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This sprung from Hegel’s aim to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascend toward Mind as the ultimate reality. His view of history as a process of humanity’s... Read more

Socrates in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was used to cut through the palaver of his adversaries... Read more

Aristotle in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

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. Apart from mathematics, he transformed every field of knowledge that he touched. Above all, Aristotle is credited with the founding of logic. When he first divided... Read more

Kant in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. Kant's aim was to restore metaphysics. He insisted that all experience must conform to... Read more

Nietzsche in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ultimately went mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms and insights than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and... Read more

Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished.Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language and sought to solve the problems of philosophy by reducing them to logic. All else—metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, finally even philosophy itself—was... Read more

Rousseau in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, a naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau’s ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who... Read more

Plato in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 BC he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but... Read more

St. Augustine in 90 Minutes

By: Paul Strathern

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Augustine’s spiritual crisis and conversion to Christianity, detailed in his Confessions, ultimately led him to his major contribution to philosophy: the fusion of the two doctrines of Christianity and Neoplatonism. This not only provided Christianity with a strong intellectual backing but tied it to the Greek tradition of philosophy, which... Read more