Philosopher Biography
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- Auteur(s): A. C. Grayling
- Narrateur(s): Ric Jerrom
- Durée: 14 h et 38 min
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The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics. Acclaimed philosopher and historian A. C. Grayling points to three primary factors that led to the rise of vernacular (popular) languages in philosophy, theology, science, and literature.
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The Age of Genius
- The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
- Narrateur(s): Ric Jerrom
- Durée: 14 h et 38 min
- Date de publication: 2016-03-01
- Langue: Anglais
- The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe....
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The Polymath
- A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
- Auteur(s): Peter Burke
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 11 h et 48 min
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From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view.
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The Polymath
- A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
- Narrateur(s): Nigel Patterson
- Durée: 11 h et 48 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-08
- Langue: Anglais
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From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests....
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The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys
- Auteur(s): Shaun Attwood
- Narrateur(s): Tom Campbell
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
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Breaking bones, burying bodies, and planting bombs became second nature to Two Tonys while working for the Bonanno Crime Family, whose exploits inspired The Godfather. After a dispute with an outlaw motorcycle club, Two Tonys left a trail of corpses from Arizona to Alaska. On the run, he was pursued by bikers and a neo-Nazi gang bloodthirsty for revenge, while a homicide detective launched a nationwide manhunt.
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The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys
- Narrateur(s): Tom Campbell
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-26
- Langue: Anglais
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Breaking bones, burying bodies, and planting bombs became second nature to Two Tonys while working for the Bonanno Crime Family, whose exploits inspired The Godfather....
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Beyond the Wager
- The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal
- Auteur(s): Douglas Groothuis
- Narrateur(s): Lyle Blaker
- Durée: 7 h et 11 min
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In this accessible and well-documented study, philosopher Douglas Groothuis introduces listeners to Pascal's life as well as the breadth of his intellectual pursuits, including his contributions to mathematics, science, ethics, and theology. Groothuis overviews the key points of Pascal's Pensees, which captures his thoughts about God, humanity, and Jesus Christ. Listeners will also explore Pascal's views on a range of topics, including culture, politics, Islam, and miracles.
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Beyond the Wager
- The Christian Brilliance of Blaise Pascal
- Narrateur(s): Lyle Blaker
- Durée: 7 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2024-04-02
- Langue: Anglais
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Blaise Pascal, the seventeenth-century French philosopher and scientist, is perhaps best known for his "wager," an argument about the existence of God. But there was much more to Pascal and his brilliance.
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Maimonides
- The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
- Auteur(s): Joel L. Kraemer
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 19 h et 59 min
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The first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. Recalling such bestsellers as David McCullough's John Adams and Walter Isaacson's Einstein, Maimonides is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one man's life against the background of his time.
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an illuminating story - could've been told better
- Écrit par Stav le 2019-05-08
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Maimonides
- The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
- Narrateur(s): Sean Pratt
- Durée: 19 h et 59 min
- Date de publication: 2009-02-19
- Langue: Anglais
- This first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver....
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Derrida en 90 minutos [Derrida in 90 minutes]
- 90 minutos #3 [90 Minutes, #3]
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Eduardo Cortés
- Durée: 1 h et 41 min
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El desconstructivismo de Derrida es nada menos que un intento de destruir toda «escritura» demostrando su inevitable falsedad. El escritor escribe con una mano, pero ¿qué hace con la otra? Todo escrito, todo texto, insiste Derrida, contiene su propia agenda escondida, sus propias suposiciones metafísicas. El propio lenguaje del escritor distorsiona inevitablemente lo que piensa y escribe. Se socava así la «verdad» de todo conocimiento; llega el posestructuralismo.
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Derrida en 90 minutos [Derrida in 90 minutes]
- 90 minutos #3 [90 Minutes, #3]
- Narrateur(s): Eduardo Cortés
- Durée: 1 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2024-10-14
- Langue: Espagnol
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El desconstructivismo de Derrida es nada menos que un intento de destruir toda «escritura» demostrando su inevitable falsedad. El escritor escribe con una mano, pero ¿qué hace con la otra? T
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Sócrates en 90 minutos [Socrates in 90 Minutes]
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Gonzalo Espina
- Durée: 1 h et 30 min
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Con Sócrates se inicia la gran época de la filosofía, transcurrido apenas un siglo desde sus comienzos. Sócrates dedicaba tanto tiempo a pasear por las calles de Atenas hablando de filosofía, que nunca llegó a escribir nada. Su método basado en preguntas provocadoras –lo que se llamó dialéctica– fue precursor de la lógica
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Sócrates en 90 minutos [Socrates in 90 Minutes]
- Narrateur(s): Gonzalo Espina
- Durée: 1 h et 30 min
- Date de publication: 2024-10-14
- Langue: Espagnol
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Con Sócrates se inicia la gran época de la filosofía, transcurrido apenas un siglo desde sus comienzos. Sócrates dedicaba tanto tiempo a pasear por las calles de Atenas hablando de filosofía, que nunca llegó a escribir nada.
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San Agustín en 90 minutos [Saint Augustine in 90 Minutes]
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Gonzalo Espina
- Durée: 1 h et 22 min
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Los conflictos de Agustín de Hipona con el sexo y con una madre dominante, seguidos de una crisis espiritual que le llevó a convertirse al cristianismo –contadas con detalle en sus Confesiones, le condujeron por último a hacer su contribución más importante a la filosofía: la fusión de las doctrinas del cristianismo y del neoplatonismo. Así, no solo proporcionó al cristianismo un fuerte soporte intelectual, sino que lo enlazó con la tradición griega de la filosofía.
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San Agustín en 90 minutos [Saint Augustine in 90 Minutes]
- Narrateur(s): Gonzalo Espina
- Durée: 1 h et 22 min
- Date de publication: 2024-10-14
- Langue: Espagnol
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Los conflictos de Agustín de Hipona con el sexo y con una madre dominante, seguidos de una crisis espiritual que le llevó a convertirse al cristianismo –contadas con detalle en sus Confesiones, le condujeron por último a hacer su contribución más importante a la filosofía.
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Tomás de Aquino en 90 minutos [Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes]
- Auteur(s): Paul Strathern
- Narrateur(s): Carlos Torres
- Durée: 1 h et 34 min
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En Tomás de Aquino en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern presenta un recuento conciso y experto de la vida e ideas de Tomás de Aquino, y explica su influencia en la lucha del hombre por comprender su existencia en el mundo. El libro incluye una selección de escritos de Tomás de Aquino, una breve lista de lecturas sugeridas para aquellos que deseen profundizar en su pensamiento, y cronologías que sitúan a Tomás de Aquino en su época y en una sinopsis más amplia de la filosofía.
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Tomás de Aquino en 90 minutos [Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes]
- Narrateur(s): Carlos Torres
- Durée: 1 h et 34 min
- Date de publication: 2024-10-14
- Langue: Espagnol
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. En Tomás de Aquino en 90 minutos, Paul Strathern presenta un recuento conciso y experto de la vida e ideas de Tomás de Aquino, y explica su influencia en la lucha del hombre por comprender su existencia en el mundo.
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Machiavelli
- Philosopher of Power
- Auteur(s): Ross King
- Narrateur(s): Tim Reynolds
- Durée: 7 h et 11 min
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Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher - history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed" - and the age he embodied. Ross King, the New York Times best-selling author of Brunelleschi's Dome, argues that the author of The Prince was a far more complex and sympathetic character than is often portrayed.
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Machiavelli
- Philosopher of Power
- Narrateur(s): Tim Reynolds
- Durée: 7 h et 11 min
- Date de publication: 2016-07-12
- Langue: Anglais
- Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher - history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed" - and the age he embodied....
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Socrates
- A Man for Our Times
- Auteur(s): Paul Johnson
- Narrateur(s): John Curless
- Durée: 4 h et 41 min
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Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Paul Johnson’s books have been translated into dozens of languages. In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history’s greatest thinkers. Socrates transcended class limitations in Athens during the fifth century B.C. to develop ideas that still shape the way we think about the human body and soul, including the workings of the human mind.
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Socrates
- A Man for Our Times
- Narrateur(s): John Curless
- Durée: 4 h et 41 min
- Date de publication: 2011-10-13
- Langue: Anglais
- In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history’s greatest thinkers....
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Frank Ramsey
- A Sheer Excess of Powers
- Auteur(s): Cheryl Misak
- Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
- Durée: 19 h et 55 min
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When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.
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Outstanding!
- Écrit par TM le 2022-01-09
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Frank Ramsey
- A Sheer Excess of Powers
- Narrateur(s): Liam Gerrard
- Durée: 19 h et 55 min
- Date de publication: 2020-09-23
- Langue: Anglais
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When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal....
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Natality
- Toward a Philosophy of Birth
- Auteur(s): Jennifer Banks
- Narrateur(s): Jen Jayden
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
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Although we have long intellectual traditions of wrestling with mortality, few have ever heard of natality, the term political theorist Hannah Arendt used to describe birth's active role in our lives. In this ambitious, revelatory book, Jennifer Banks begins with Arendt's definition of natality as the "miracle that saves the world" to develop an expansive framework for birth's philosophical, political, spiritual, and aesthetic significance. Banks focuses on seven renowned Western thinkers to reveal a provocative countertradition of birth.
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Natality
- Toward a Philosophy of Birth
- Narrateur(s): Jen Jayden
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2023-06-06
- Langue: Anglais
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In this ambitious, revelatory book, Jennifer Banks explores natality, a much-needed counterpoint to mortality, drawing on the insights of brilliant writers and thinkers....
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Martin Heidegger
- Auteur(s): George Steiner
- Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
- Durée: 6 h
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With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. "It would be hard to imagine a better introduction to the work of philosopher Martin Heidegger." (George Kateb, The New Republic)
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Martin Heidegger
- Narrateur(s): Robert Blumenfeld
- Durée: 6 h
- Date de publication: 2013-09-17
- Langue: Anglais
- With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader.
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- Auteur(s): Don Lattin
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 7 h et 47 min
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It is impossible to overstate the cultural significance of the four men described in Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club. Huston Smith, tirelessly working to promote cross-cultural religious and spiritual tolerance. Richard Alpert, aka Ram Dass, inspiring generations with his mantra "be here now". Andrew Weil, undisputed leader of the holistic medicine revolution. And, of course, Timothy Leary, the charismatic, rebellious counterculture icon and LSD guru.
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The Harvard Psychedelic Club
- How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America
- Narrateur(s): John Pruden
- Durée: 7 h et 47 min
- Date de publication: 2017-11-28
- Langue: Anglais
- Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....
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Adam Smith
- Father of Economics
- Auteur(s): Jesse Norman
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Norman
- Durée: 13 h et 40 min
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time. In Adam Smith, political philosopher Jesse Norman dispels the myths and caricatures, and provides a far more complex portrait of the man. Offering a highly engaging account of Smith's life and times, Norman explores his work as a whole and traces his influence over two centuries to the present day. Finally, he shows how a proper understanding of Smith can help us address the problems of modern capitalism.
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Adam Smith
- Father of Economics
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Norman
- Durée: 13 h et 40 min
- Date de publication: 2018-09-11
- Langue: Anglais
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A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time....
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Wings of Thought
- Auteur(s): Khalil Gibrán
- Narrateur(s): Joseph Scott Anthony
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
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Through his fiction, essays, poems, and art, Kahlil Gibran inspired a devoted international following and transformed modern Arabic literature. In this book, Joseph P. Ghougassian brings together the philosophical elements present across Gibran’s diverse writings, including his best-selling work The Prophet, as well as other significant works such as The Broken Wings, which tells the story of doomed young lovers, and the collection of aphorisms in Sand and Foam.
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Wings of Thought
- Narrateur(s): Joseph Scott Anthony
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2013-03-05
- Langue: Anglais
- Through his fiction, essays, poems, and art, Kahlil Gibran inspired a devoted international following and transformed modern Arabic literature....
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El infiel y el profesor
- David Hume y Adam Smith, la amistad que forjó el pensamiento moderno
- Auteur(s): Dennis C. Rasmussen
- Narrateur(s): Victor Bedoya
- Durée: 10 h et 19 min
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David Hume es considerado el filósofo en lengua inglesa más importante que jamás haya existido. Sin embargo, en vida se le atacó por su escepticismo religioso, se le llamó el Gran Infiel y se le consideró inapto para instruir a los jóvenes. Adam Smith, en cambio, fue un profesor reverenciado de filosofía moral y a menudo se le ensalza como padre fundador del capitalismo. Lo más asombroso, con todo, es que los dos mantuvieron, según lo define Rasmussen, la amistad más grande que se conoce entre dos filósofos.
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El infiel y el profesor
- David Hume y Adam Smith, la amistad que forjó el pensamiento moderno
- Narrateur(s): Victor Bedoya
- Durée: 10 h et 19 min
- Date de publication: 2021-07-24
- Langue: Espagnol
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David Hume es considerado el filósofo en lengua inglesa más importante que jamás haya existido. Sin embargo, en vida se le atacó por su...
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On Augustine
- Auteur(s): Rowan Williams
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 9 h et 57 min
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Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge), Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new audiobook, he turns his attention to St Augustine. St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory ( The City of God) and, through his Confessions, to the understanding of human psychology.
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Must read
- Écrit par Bundles of Books and More le 2022-05-28
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On Augustine
- Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
- Durée: 9 h et 57 min
- Date de publication: 2016-07-12
- Langue: Anglais
- In this new audiobook, Rowan Williams turns his attention to St Augustine. St Augustine not only shaped the development of Western theology, he also made a major contribution to political theory ....
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Stranger in a Strange Land
- Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
- Auteur(s): George Prochnik
- Narrateur(s): David Stifel
- Durée: 16 h et 51 min
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Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem - the 20th-century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah - Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with an original and urgent reimagining of the future of Israel.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
- Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
- Narrateur(s): David Stifel
- Durée: 16 h et 51 min
- Date de publication: 2017-03-22
- Langue: Anglais
- Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem, Prochnik combines biography and memoir to counter our contemporary political crisis with a reimagining of the future of Israel....
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