Modern
26 books
Essays & Short Works
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Bertrand Russell - Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his meetings with Lenin, Trostky, and Gorky. It includes a chapter...
4 hours 39 minutes
Modern
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Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits, Part I
«Human, all-too-Human, is the monument of a crisis. It is entitled: 'A book for free spirits,' and almost every line in it represents a victory—in its pages I freed myself from everything foreign to my real nature....
10 hours 2 minutes
Modern
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Bertrand Russell - Problems of Philosophy (version 2)
This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible introduction to philosophy for the average shopkeeper in England in 1912....
5 hours 12 minutes
Modern
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Bertrand Russell - On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean
In this piece, Bertrand Russell offers an account of propositions. This essay has been widely regarded as a turning point in Russell's thought: fresh from his prison sentence, during which he read numerous works of...
1 hour 48 minutes
Drama
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Hyakuzō Kurata - Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called «The Priest & His Disciples» («Shukke to sono...
5 hours 44 minutes
Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell - Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. «Mathematics and the Metaphysicians» details the impact of the 1900 World Congress of Philosophers on Russell's development and...
8 hours 21 minutes
