
Places of Mind
A Life of Edward Said
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Timothy Brennan
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As someone who studied under Edward Said and remained a friend until his death in 2003, Timothy Brennan had unprecedented access to his thesis adviser's ideas and legacy. In this authoritative work, Said, the pioneer of postcolonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic, emerges as a self-doubting, tender, eloquent advocate of literature's dramatic effects on politics and civic life.
Places of Mind reveals Said as a study in opposites: a cajoler and strategist, a New York intellectual with a foot in Beirut, an orchestra impresario in Weimar and Ramallah, a raconteur on national television, a Palestinian negotiator at the State Department, and an actor in films in which he played himself. Brennan traces the Arab influences on Said's thinking along with his tutelage under Lebanese statesmen, off-beat modernist auteurs, and New York literati, as Said grew into a scholar whose influential writings changed the face of university life forever. With both intimidating brilliance and charm, Said melded these resources into a groundbreaking and influential countertradition of radical humanism, set against the backdrop of techno-scientific dominance and religious war. With unparalleled clarity, Said gave the humanities a new authority in the age of Reaganism, one that continues today.
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- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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The architects of America's cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated guidebook of wrong turns, dead-ends, and blind alleys.
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The Long March
- De Suzanne en 05-16-06
De: Roger Kimball
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
- De: Andrew S. Curran
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity - for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.
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lifelong coverage of his life.
- De Michael Daly en 03-22-21
De: Andrew S. Curran
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Parfit
- A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
- De: David Edmonds
- Narrado por: Zeb Soanes
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
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Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest moral thinkers of the past hundred years, Parfit was anything but a public intellectual. Yet his ideas have shaped the way philosophers think about things that affect us all: equality, altruism, what we owe to future generations, and even what it means to be a person. In Parfit, David Edmonds presents the first biography of an intriguing, obsessive, and eccentric genius.
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- De Anna Karenina en 07-05-23
De: David Edmonds
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Making History
- The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
- De: Richard Cohen
- Narrado por: Richard Cohen
- Duración: 26 h y 8 m
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There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.
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Missing 20 pages from book
- De Rick, Austin en 04-23-22
De: Richard Cohen
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Goddess of the Market
- Ayn Rand and the American Right
- De: Jennifer Burns
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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Burns highlights the two facets of Rand's work that make her a perennial draw for those on the right: Her promotion of capitalism, and her defense of limited government. Both sprang from her early, bitter experience of life under Communism, and became among the most deeply enduring of her messages, attracting a diverse audience of college students and intellectuals, business people and Republican Party activists, libertarians and conservatives.
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Unfortunate
- De Andrej Drapal en 03-14-18
De: Jennifer Burns
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The Age of American Unreason
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
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Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon - one that is at odds with our heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern, secular knowledge and science. With mordant wit, Jacoby surveys an antirationalist landscape extending from pop culture to a pseudo-intellectual universe of "junk thought".
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Interesting, but explanation by redescription
- De T. Andrew Poehlman en 07-15-08
De: Susan Jacoby
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
- How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
- De: Elizabeth Winkler
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 14 h y 28 m
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The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English literature. Scholars admit that the Bard’s biography is a “black hole,” yet to publicly question the identity of the god of English literature is unacceptable, even (some say) “immoral.” In Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies, journalist and literary critic Elizabeth Winkler sets out to probe the origins of this literary taboo.
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Excellent!
- De Virgil Tracy en 06-03-23
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C. S. Lewis - A Life
- Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
- De: Alister E. McGrath
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis - A Life, Dr. Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely path of this Oxford don, who spent his days teaching English literature to the brightest students in the world and his spare time writing.
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Awakening my curiosity and desire to read more!
- De Pearl Glacier en 03-13-13
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Genius & Anxiety
- How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
- De: Norman Lebrecht
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 18 h y 1 m
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Norman Lebrecht has devoted half of his life to pondering and researching the mindset of the Jewish intellectuals, writers, scientists, and thinkers who turned the tides of history and shaped the world today as we know it. In Genius & Anxiety, Lebrecht begins with the Communist Manifesto in 1847 and ends in 1947, when Israel was founded. This robust, magnificent volume, beautifully designed, is an urgent and necessary celebration of Jewish genius and contribution.
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Post-anxiety
- De Amaze en 03-27-20
De: Norman Lebrecht
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- De: John Tresch
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues.
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Know the Real Poe
- De Elliott Wolfe, M.D. en 06-28-21
De: John Tresch
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Marx's General
- The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
- De: Tristram Hunt
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
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Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the 19th century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile family, he spent his life working in the Manchester cotton industry, riding to the Cheshire hounds, and enjoying the comfortable upper-middle-class existence of a Victorian gentleman.
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Not many choices here anyways.
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 02-16-13
De: Tristram Hunt
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C.S. Lewis
- A Biography of Friendship
- De: Colin Duriez
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis' said he found his new tutor interesting and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, "Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him." You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and nowhere is this more true than in the case of C.S. Lewis, the remarkable academic, author, popularizer of faith - and creator of Narnia. He lost his mother early in life and became estranged from his father, much to his regret.
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It's a Great Concept
- De James en 08-13-20
De: Colin Duriez
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Places of Mind
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- Sarah
- 02-14-24
The book is a lovely portrait of Said
This review is of the audio narration, not the book itself. Most if not all Arabic words were heavily butchered. People’s names mispronounced… it’s a little ironic… we couldn’t hire an Arabic speaker to read a book about the man who wrote Orientalism.
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- Ron
- 11-14-23
Great biography,
This biography of Said is particularly important in our time of Palestinian/Israeli conflict. I wish the reader had done a quick Wikipedia check to find out how to pronounce many of the names of the important scholars the book discusses such as Flaubert, Barthes, Louis Althusser, Marcuse and-jarringly- Cockburn.
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- Keith
- 04-17-21
Promise and peril of being a public intellectual
Brennan's biography of Edward Said is written through the prism of a former student's deep admiration for his mentor, yet it remains critical of his subject's ideas and motivations. Far from the exhaustive warts-and-all biography that is often the result of a writer becoming immersed in personal papers and extensive interviews, Brennan remains focused on Said's ideas. For the most part, Brennan dedicates himself to explaining and analyzing the cultural, political, and historical context which shaped Said's published work, not his private life. Dealing with the political complications of the Middle East throughout, Brennan also uses Said's story to chart the broader trajectory of academia since the 1960s. In doing so he asks critical questions about intellectual freedom, political efficacy, and the minefields that public intellectuals must navigate. The institutional history found here regarding Columbia University is especially informative. This book helps explain both Said's lasting influence and the ways in which his work continues to generate divided responses both in and out of the academy.
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- Phillip Straghalis
- 06-22-22
Extraordinary uniquely Palestinian
An extraordinary man we were lucky that he was Palestinian. He was our great intellect. A man who saw the world I head of his time. It is a fitting biography.
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