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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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Without This Book, You Are Uneducated
- De Michael D. Rubin en 10-03-18
De: Ludwig von Mises, y otros
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Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization
- De: Samuel Gregg
- Narrado por: John McLain
- Duración: 6 h
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This sharp commentary on the rise and current decline of Western Civilization touches on historical moments - including the building of early universities in the Middle Ages and the American Revolution - and figures - including Augustine, Acquinas, Edmund Burke, and Adam Smith - that exemplify the faith-reason synthesis at the heart of Western Civilization, as well as the modern villains that threaten to destroy it.
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Excellent description of the current state of the West
- De Terryn en 10-24-19
De: Samuel Gregg
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Last Call for Liberty
- How America's Genius for Freedom Has Become Its Greatest Threat
- De: Os Guinness
- Narrado por: Os Guinness
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversaries, but our fellow citizens. Yet the roots of the crisis are deeper than many realize. Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom, as America's genius for freedom has become her Achilles' heel.
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Thought Provoking Work On Liberty In America
- De Ezekiel en 05-28-19
De: Os Guinness
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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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Intelligently written and without Grace
- De Gary en 10-25-17
De: Terry Eagleton
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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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A singular work.
- De Daniel S Hoffman en 06-20-21
De: Jacques Ellul
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Civilization and Its Discontents, Totem and Taboo
- De: Sigmund Freud
- Narrado por: Martyn Swain
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is remembered as the father of psychoanalysis. Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) is one of his key works, written three decades after his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams. In it he considers the conflict between the needs of the individual acting both egotistically and altruistically in the pursuit of happiness and the myriad demands of civilised society and the ensuing tensions this clash of needs and demands generates.
De: Sigmund Freud
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A Short History of Ethics
- De: Alasdair MacIntyre
- Narrado por: Tim Dalgleish
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
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A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. It remains an important work, ideal for all students interested in ethics and morality.
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Great philosopher made ridiculous by accents
- De Olivia Walling en 10-04-17
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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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Unpersuasive and a bit repetitive
- De Adam Shields en 03-07-18
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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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Needs Guest Narrators for French and German
- De Norman en 06-13-15
De: Charles Taylor
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Irony of American History
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- Darwin8u
- 08-09-17
"Nothing in history is inevitable."
"Sometimes the irony in our historic situation is derived from the extravagant emphasis in our culture upon the value and dignity of the individual and upon individual liberty as the final value of life."
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
I read/listened to this (I'll often do both) on a plane ride from Malta back home to AZ. It was probably the only positive aspect of travel. Normally, I wouldn't consider a book of philosophy to be a travel book/beach read, but Niebuhr's prose was so clean and his ideas expressed so well that I could have read it anywhere and not been distracted. It is also a small enough book that it is easy to read in one long session (broken up three times with pretzels, diet Coke, and a warm towel). I'm also fairly fanatical about NOT inking up my books. I use Post It Tabs excessively while reading. However, this book was so quotable. Had so many lines and ideas that I broke down and just started underlining with a pen [GASP]. All of this preamble is meant to do is inform you, reader, of HOW much I enjoyed every page and every minute of this book.
The new edition is introduced by one of my favorite historians/military historians/Imperial theorists - Andrew Bacevich. He has written several books on American Empire and military policy (The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, and America's War for the Greater Middle East) that are all built (more or less) using a very Niebuhrian framework. Between Bacevich and Obama loving Reinhold Niebuhr, my quiet clap seems hardly needed.
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- John
- 01-08-22
Maybe it’s good?
The performance bothered me. He spoke too fast. Lower speed to .9 and it was tolerable.
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- Easton Reader
- 03-28-17
Important prespectives from a respected scholar
Where does The Irony of American History rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It ranks among the lower half. In the book, published in the early 1950's contains references to events current at that time, but long since past. The author's comments about "the oriental" viewpoints seem vastly oversimplified as he lumps together the different cultures of India, China, and Japan.
What didn’t you like about Robert Blumenfeld’s performance?
Robert Blumenfeld's performance was the weak point of this audiobook for two reasons. First, he spoke too quickly making it difficult to consider the important points the author was making. Second, the narrator spoke as if he was delivering a sermon to a large assembly. A more conversational delivery as one would expect from a guest in one's home would have been more effective
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- Preston D. Hutson
- 03-10-14
Very dry, uninspired reading . . . .
Would you consider the audio edition of The Irony of American History to be better than the print version?
Drawn from 2 Niebuhr speeches on the ironic contradictions of American Foreign Policy in the face of Communism, the book offers a powerful critique of several pedantic myths underlying that Policy. If, as Andrew Bacevich opines in the introduction, the book is "the most important book ever written on US foreign policy," one might expect its reading to give effect to that power by drawing upon its oral beginnings. Where one might expect the reading to create a sense of intrigue that sends the listener back to the written word for affirmation of Niebuhr's most compelling points, the listener is instead sent scurrying back to the book in a desperate attempt to discern Niebuhr's intended meaning and to ascertain "what's the big deal about this book?"
How did the narrator detract from the book?
He ruined it, see above.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Very early, Niebuhr explains the ironic similarities with the naivety of Christian idealism and the naivety of Communist thought, which for me, was jaw-droppingly powerful stuff.
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- David Stabenfeldt
- 07-26-19
Prescient
After listening to this book, I’m amazed by the way Reinhold Niebuhr’s historical analysis is as though he is writing about our present time. His final analysis, beginning with the final nine minutes, can be heard as a warning for our generation.
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- Garrett Orr
- 08-22-20
ignore the moronic introduction
the introduction did more to obscure rheinhold's even-handed genius than anything I could have conceived of. I am glad I didn't stop there. very good grasp of his cultural place and that within the broader geopolitical history of the world and the necessary outlining of spiritual truth and reality.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-29-10
Superlative Book
Brilliant. Brilliant. And again I say brilliant. Scintillating insight. Gem-like clarity. Relentless unmasking of illusions. This book is said to be highly admired by President Obama; nevertheless, it is politically uncategorizable. In spite of its brevity, impossible to absorb in one listening/reading. Well read. New introduction.
Audible is to be applauded for making this book available. How about more by Niebuhr?
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- W. Goodman
- 02-16-15
Get a new narrator
This book is incredibly profound. Unfortunately its narrator distracts from the message with a stilted accent. Is he British? Wealthy from New England? In the end, it makes listening to the book a trying experience. A deep Southern drawl would be less trying. Please get Grover Gardner or someone who can read a powerful book without testing the listener's patience.
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- Jonathan G
- 01-03-11
The "Peter Drucker" of Political Science
Niebuhr offers amazingly prescient insights highly relevant to today's world from his perch in 1950's America. Just one example: his analysis of the forces that might make a case for and warnings of the likely disastrous consequences of "preemptive war" are just eery with our contemporary back drop of foreign wars. His declarative style is reminiscent of the father of modern management thinking, Peter Drucker. Both thinkers see patterns and the seeds of emerging trends invisible to the rest of us.
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- Legacy
- 02-21-19
Reader spoke too fast
the reader spoke far too quickly for such a dense read. I found myself needing to stop frequently to digest the text. perhaps it is simply too dense for an audio book. the subject and discussion of it was truly excellent and exciting.
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