Paul Strathern Audio Books

Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg....

With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man.

D. H. Lawrences works were an attempt to revive some vivid, instinctual part of the human spirit that he felt had been lost or damaged. Strathern offers a witty and incisive appraisal of the writer and his work.

René Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life.

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense....

Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams.

Confucius taught a moral wisdom that would become a predominant social force in China from the second century BCE until the mid-twentieth century.

In Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Schopenhauer’s life and ideas and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world.

If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it, Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher....

Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century…