D.E. Wittkower
33 books
*Non-fiction
496
René Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy
After several years working on a treatise putting forth his mechanistic philosophy and physics, Descartes shelved the project when his contemporary, Galileo, was charged with heresy. That work, The World, was only...
3 hours 29 minutes
Religion
508
Louis Ginzberg - Legends of the Jews, Volume 1
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg taught at the Jewish...
13 hours 50 minutes
*Non-fiction
555
Karl Marx - Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1
Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his lifetime, in 1867. Marx’s aim in Capital, Volume I is to uncover and...
37 hours 16 minutes
*Non-fiction
556
David Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism...
5 hours 54 minutes
*Non-fiction
465
Immanuel Kant - Perpetual Peace: A Philosophic Essay (Hastie Translation)
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace, and argues that nations can be brought into federation with one another...
2 hours 11 minutes
*Non-fiction
483
Immanuel Kant - On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “On the Common Saying” (both M.J. Gregor and H.B. Nisbet) – Kant takes up the...
2 hours 12 minutes
