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Books narrated by Alexandre Lefebvre

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  • Liberalism as a Way of Life

    Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Interpreting Bergson

    Critical Essays

    Bergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political thought, and religion. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Human Rights and the Care of the Self

    When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies in enabling ethical practices of self-transformation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of "care of the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Human Rights as a Way of Life

    On Bergson's Political Philosophy

    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially on his late masterpiece, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion—from which Alexandre Lefebvre ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Human Rights as a Way of Life

    On Bergson's Political Philosophy

    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially on his late masterpiece, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion—from which Alexandre Lefebvre ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Liberalism as a Way of Life

    Narrated by Christopher Douyard ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means. Misled into ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bergson, Politics, and Religion

    Henri Bergson is primarily known for his work on time, memory, and creativity. His equally innovative interventions into politics and religion have, however, been neglected or dismissed until now. In the first book in English dedicated to Bergson as a political thinker, leading Bergson scholars illuminate his positions on core concerns within political philosophy: the significance of emotion in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Subject of Human Rights

    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "human" part of "human rights." Drawing on the finest thinking in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, and literary studies, this volume examines how human rights—as discourse, law, and practice—shape how we understand humanity and human beings. It asks how the humanness that the human rights ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Henri Bergson

    Translated by Nils F. Schott ...
    Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives. Here Jankélévitch covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, emphasizing the concepts of time and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Freedom

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1904–1905

    by Henri Bergson ...
    For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century, taught at the Collège de France. Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived thanks to stenographic transcripts. Conveying Bergson's very voice, these extraordinary documents are finally presented here in English.The 1904 ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Revolutionary Center

    The Lost Genius of Liberalism

    A cultural history of liberalism—one of our most widely used yet misunderstood terms—that reveals why the world urgently needs a more liberal mindset.So-called liberalism has been twisted out of shape by both the left- and right-wing who incorrectly conceive of it in ideological terms, without understanding what a liberal philosophy really entails. In untangling these misconceptions, Wooldridge ... Read more

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  • Liberalism against Itself

    Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

    by Samuel Moyn ...
    The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisisBy the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD