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First published as articles in El Sol in 1929, the essays in The Revolt of the Masses serve as a prescient analysis of a 20th-century creature - the "mass man" - and the mass society that he makes up. With strains of Jamesian pragmatism and the sociology of Gustave Le Bon, Ortega shows how technological and political changes reduced Western civilization to the lowest common denominator and made it susceptible to the pressures of statism.
Though timely when it was first published, this book has grown to resonate in our own times of social media, pop culture influencers, and fake news. While Ortega wrote in a different age of cultural upheaval, we would do well to heed his cautionary wisdom in our own age.
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A must read in terms of group psychology....
- De Alednam A Uonopk en 08-19-20
De: Gustave Le Bon
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On Revolution
- De: Hannah Arendt
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the 18th-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the 20th century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful Analysis of Differing Revolutions
- De Roger en 01-10-18
De: Hannah Arendt
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The Technological Society
- De: Jacques Ellul
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 21 h y 20 m
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Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become a classic in its field, laying the groundwork for all other studies of technology and society that have followed. Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology - which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind - threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends. No conversation about the dangers of technology and its unavoidable effects on society can begin without a careful listening of this book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A singular work.
- De Daniel S Hoffman en 06-20-21
De: Jacques Ellul
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Irrationality
- A History of the Dark Side of Reason
- De: Justin E. H. Smith
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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Discovering that reason is the defining feature of our species, we named ourselves the “rational animal”. But is this flattering story itself rational? In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to today - from the fifth-century BC murder of Hippasus for revealing the existence of irrational numbers to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump - Justin Smith says the evidence suggests the opposite.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good brain workout
- De ThomasC en 04-09-19
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The Hedgehog and the Fox (Second Edition)
- An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
- De: Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy - editor, Michael Ignatieff - foreword
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 2 h y 37 m
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"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin's masterly essay on Leo Tolstoy and the philosophy of history, the subject of the epilogue to War and Peace. Although there have been many interpretations of the adage, Berlin uses it to mark a fundamental distinction between human beings who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Fox Who Tried To Be A Hedgehog
- De Rich S. en 12-14-21
De: Isaiah Berlin, y otros
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- De: Anthony Pagden
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A thorough political tract rather than history
- De Jacobus en 03-08-14
De: Anthony Pagden
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Irrational Man
- A Study in Existential Philosophy
- De: William Barrett
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Irrational Man begins by discussing the roots of existentialism in the art and thinking of Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Baudelaire, Blake, Dostoevski, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Picasso, Joyce, and Beckett. The heart of the book explains the views of the foremost existentialists - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre. The result is a marvelously lucid definition of existentialism and a brilliant interpretation of its impact.
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4 out of 5 stars
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heady
- De A. Antine en 07-28-22
De: William Barrett
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The Demon in Democracy
- Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies
- De: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important book on political philosophy
- De Wayne en 08-02-19
De: Ryszard Legutko, y otros
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Propaganda
- The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
- De: Jacques Ellul
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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From one of the greatest French philosophers of the 20th century comes a seminal study and critique of propaganda. Taking not only a psychological approach but a sociological approach as well, Jacques Ellul outlines the taxonomy for propaganda and, ultimately, its destructive nature towards democracy. Drawing from his own experiences fighting for the French resistance against the Vichy regime, Ellul offers a unique insight into the propaganda machine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent analysis on the dichotomies of propagandize media
- De Anonymous User en 04-03-21
De: Jacques Ellul
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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There is a cause, or a reason, behind everything that happens. This is the fundamental view behind the classical proposition the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which, in 1813, Schopenhauer chose as his subject for further examination in his doctoral dissertation On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I’ve enjoyed this program
- De M.Biblioswine en 04-23-20
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Theory and History
- An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution (LvMI)
- De: Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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Like F.A. Hayek, Ludwig von Mises moved beyond economics in his later years to address questions regarding the foundation of all social science. But unlike Hayek's attempts, Mises' writings on these matters have received less attention than they deserve. Theory and History, writes Rothbard in his introduction, "remains by far the most neglected masterwork of Mises". Here Mises defends his all-important idea of methodological dualism: one approach to the hard sciences and another for the social sciences.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Without This Book, You Are Uneducated
- De Michael D. Rubin en 10-03-18
De: Ludwig von Mises, y otros
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
- Duración: 19 h y 2 m
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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5 out of 5 stars
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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What Are We Doing Here?
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unpersuasive and a bit repetitive
- De Adam Shields en 03-07-18
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- De: Carl Jung
- Narrado por: Christopher Prince
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the classic introduction to the thought of Carl Jung. Along with Freud and Adler, Jung was one of the chief founders of modern psychiatry. In this book, Jung examines some of the most contested and crucial areas in the field of analytical psychology: dream analysis, the primitive unconscious, and the relationship between psychology and religion.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could have almost been an automated text reader
- De Chicken Love en 04-24-15
De: Carl Jung
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Escape from Freedom
- De: Erich Fromm
- Narrado por: Anthony Haden Salerno
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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lf a man cannot stand freedom, he will probably turn fascist. This, in the fewest possible words, is the essential argument in this modem classic, Escape from Freedom. The author, Erich Fromm, is a distinguished psychologist, late of Berlin and Heidelberg, now of New York City.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why is this not required reading in high school?
- De Xander en 09-07-16
De: Erich Fromm
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A Secular Age
- De: Charles Taylor
- Narrado por: Dennis Holland
- Duración: 42 h y 7 m
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What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Needs Guest Narrators for French and German
- De Norman en 06-13-15
De: Charles Taylor
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Culture and the Death of God
- De: Terry Eagleton
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking audiobook the contradictions, difficulties, and significance of the modern search for a replacement for God. Lucid, stylish, and entertaining in his usual manner, Eagleton presents a brilliant survey of modern thought that also serves as a timely, urgently needed intervention into our perilous political present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intelligently written and without Grace
- De Gary en 10-25-17
De: Terry Eagleton
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Revolt of the Masses
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- Jason B Shrout
- 11-17-21
Excellent insight to populace
populace behave is strange in recent and ancient times, this book highlights interpretation of facts to those in modern and ancient times and attempts to draw conclusion of where we are at and where we may be headed.
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- No to Statism
- 06-21-21
Excellent Audiobook!
I want to say how very grateful I am to Audible for making this title available! It gave me great pleasure to both purchase and listen to it. With that said, there are some other great titles written by Mr. Gasset, that I hope will one day be made available here too.
Though Jackson Moss may not have given a superb or stellar performance (I think he is still quite youthful and unseasoned); I am nevertheless very, very grateful that he took on this project! So let me say it clearly, thank you Mr. Moss!
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- Anonymous User
- 06-26-23
It’s even more true in 2023!
Must read for every member of a society who (for whatever reason) is still willing to have a future for our children. So full of clear and precise observations, so full of thoughts that could be used for a great utility.
And this book is from 1929.
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- Paola
- 04-09-22
It sounds like a robot
The robotic voice made me give up. How can I get a redound on this?
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