Philosophy audiobooks

How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle

By: Jonas Ceika

Narrated by: Jonas Ceika

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Modernity has been defined by humanity’s capacity for self-destruction.

In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Ceika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the 21st century. Leaving behind its past associations with bureaucracy and state tyranny, and it's lifeless and drab theoretical accounts, Ceika instead... Read more

Hablemos de langostas

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Antonio Raluy

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

David Foster Wallace nos sorprende con un delirante y divertido libro de artículos. «Su voz brota de cada página, reforzando la corriente de pensamiento que defiende que es una especie de genio para cuyo arte todavía no se ha inventado una palabra». The Sunday Telegraph ¿Sienten miedo las langostas antes de ser devoradas? ¿Tenía Franz Kafka un... Read more

The Murder of Professor Schlick

By: David Edmonds

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a... Read more

Nevertheless

By: Carlo Ginzburg

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction?



In fact, both. Ginzburg approaches Machiavelli's work from the perspective of casuistry, or case-based ethical reasoning. For... Read more

Grief

By: Michael Cholbi

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us—as universal as it is painful—is central to the human condition. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have rarely examined grief in any depth. In Grief, Michael Cholbi presents a groundbreaking philosophical exploration of this complex emotional event, offering valuable new... Read more

On Human Nature

By: Roger Scruton

Narrated by: Mike Cooper

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short book, Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only... Read more

Standing as Awareness

By: Greg Goode

Narrated by: Matthew Josdal

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by Sri Atmananda (Krishna Menon), the Direct Path is a "pathless path." It simply articulates the being of you and the world as loving, open, clear awareness. If this truth is realized as your experience, then nothing need be done. The path disappears, and life is lived in sweetness and celebration! But if there are still questions or... Read more

A Brief History of Thought

By: Luc Ferry

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry's instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy—including its profound relevance to modern daily life and its essential role in achieving happiness and living a meaningful... Read more

The Wisdom of the Myths

By: Luc Ferry

Narrated by: Bob Souer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A fascinating journey through Greek mythology that explains the myths' timeless lessons and meaning



Heroes, gods, and mortals. The Greek myths are the founding narratives of Western civilization: to understand them is to know the origins of philosophy, literature, art, science, law, and more. Indeed, as Luc Ferry shows in this masterful book,... Read more

Hope Under Oppression

By: Katie Stockdale

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We have all been told, at one time or another, to "never give up hope." It's a common injunction to children, but as we grow older, sustaining hope becomes more challenging, particularly in a world we come to see as often frightening, dark, and unjust. But what is this thing "hope," and why is hope so valuable that we are so often urged to... Read more

Love

By: Ronald De Sousa

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes.



Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction... Read more

Making Monsters

By: David Livingstone Smith

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it." So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their... Read more

How to Be a Farmer

By: unknown

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether you farm or garden, live in the country or long to move there, or simply enjoy an occasional rural retreat, you will be delighted by this cornucopia of writings about living and working on the land, harvested from the fertile fields of ancient Greek and Roman literature. An inspiring antidote to the digital age, How to Be a Farmer evokes... Read more

How to Innovate

By: Aristotle

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times—the ancient Greeks.



When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions—democracy, the alphabet,... Read more

A Visual Theology Guide to the Bible

By: Tim Challies & Josh Byers

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The deepest truths of the Bible accessible in a way that can be seen, understood, and experienced like never before, combining graphics and text to teach the nature and contents of the Bible in a fresh and exciting way.For a beautiful, approachable, informative presentation of the concepts and principles of Scripture--turn to any page of A... Read more

No-cosas

By: Byung-Chul Han

Narrated by: Javier Portugués (Portu)

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

El nuevo libro del filósofo vivo más leído del mundo. «Hoy estamos en la transición de la era de las cosas a la era de las no-cosas. No son las cosas, sino la información, lo que determina el mundo en que vivimos.» Hoy en día, el mundo se vacía de cosas y se llena de información inquietante como voces sin cuerpo. La digitalización desmaterializa... Read more

El malestar en la cultura

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Manuel Lopez

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sigmund Freud publicó en 1930 “El malestar en la cultura”, el segundo tratado completo de Freud sobre teoría cultural, junto con su obra de 1921 “Psicología de las masas y análisis del yo”. En ella, Freud describe el conflicto entre el individuo con su impulso de satisfacer sus pulsiones y la sociedad, que presiona constantemente para contener... Read more

El porvenir de una ilusión

By: Sigmund Freud

Narrated by: Manuel Lopez

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“El porvenir de una ilusión” es una obra de 1927 de Sigmund Freud. Se considera su principal obra sobre la religión, vista como un fenómeno social contemporáneo. Para Freud, la base de la religión es el desamparo humano. Una reacción infantil a esto es el deseo de un padre protector. En la religión este deseo se cumple, pero sólo en la fantasía,... Read more

Shapes of Truth

By: Neal Allen

Narrated by: Neal Allen

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden in your body is a set of thirty-five divine objects that represent aspects of God. They can grant immediate and sustained relief from everyday suffering. Shapes of Truth unveils this remarkable discovery and provides step-by-step instructions for encountering them yourself. With parallels in Platonist philosophy and Sufi mysticism, these... Read more

The Kindness of Strangers

By: Michael E. McCullough

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"A fine achievement."--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can DoA sweeping psychological history of human goodness -- from the foundations of evolution to the modern political and social challenges humanity is now facing.How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin,... Read more

Metaphysical Animals

By: Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman

Narrated by: Alex Dunmore

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II.

The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In... Read more

Billionaire and the Monk, The \ El Billonario y el Monje (Spanish ed)

By: Vibhor Kumar Singh

Narrated by: Joaquin Chablé

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

La mayor sabiduría se encuentra a menudo en el conocimiento más simple.¿Qué pasa si aprende que todo lo que le han enseñado sobre la felicidad es falso? ¿Qué pasa si te das cuenta de que la felicidad no es una meta y, por lo tanto, no se puede lograr? ¿Qué pasa si descubre que es el camino ordinario el que conduce a un tesoro extraordinario?Esta... Read more

El arte de la guerra completo

By: Sun Tzu & Sun Pin

Narrated by: Hector Velasco

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Por mas de dos siglos, El arte de la guerra ha sido la guía mas completa de estrategia militar. Un clásico de la literatura china, se ha convertido en lectura esencial para quienes buscan el éxito, tanto en la vida personal como en los negocios.

“Uno de los rasgos más interesantes del texto de Sun Tzu es que no pareciera que fue compuesto como un... Read more

The Fall of Spirituality

By: Julius Evola

Narrated by: Michael Moynihan

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

• Examines newer spiritual “systems” of the modern era, from spiritism and theosophy, to parapsychic research and anthroposophism, to psychoanalysis and the Church of Satan

• Compares these newer spiritual “systems” to the traditional spiritual path of the ancients and exposes the misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and occult dangers lurking... Read more