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Theodor Adorno - One Last Genius
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Theodor Adorno - One Last GeniusTheodor Adorno - One Last Genius

Most people first encounter Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) as one of the leading lights of the Marxist philosophers known as the Frankfurt School and as the collaborator with Max Horkheimer on Dialectic of Enlightenment, which argued that the Enlightenment emphasis on reason gave rise to Nazi politics and genocide. Yet Adorno's writings ranged widely from aesthetics and music to ethics and literature. This elegant translation of Claussen's 2003 biography of his teacher provides the first glimpse of the depth of Adorno's life and thought.
 
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Tags: Adorno, Enlightenment, Theodor, first, ethics, Genius
The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment (Audiobook, MP3)
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The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment (Audiobook, MP3)The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment (Audiobook, MP3)

Happiness is something everyone desires. Yet how to find happiness–or even if we deserve to–remains a mystery. Still more mysterious is the secret to a lasting happiness that cannot be taken away. In The Ultimate Happiness Prescription, bestselling author Deepak Chopra shows us seven keys to uncover the true secrets of joy in the most difficult times. 
 
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Tags: Happiness, Ultimate, Prescription, Chopra, Deepak, Audiobook, Enlightenment
Awakening the Buddha Within : Eight Steps to Enlightenment: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World
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Awakening the Buddha Within : Eight Steps to Enlightenment: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western WorldAwakening the Buddha Within : Eight Steps to Enlightenment: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

Awakening the Buddha Within will be definitive--the first real audiobook of Western Buddhism, explaining American and Western Buddhism not only from the heart, but also from the ground up. Awakening the Buddha Within will cover the traditional Three Trainings for Enlightenment: Ethics, Meditation, and Wisdom, and includes all the major concepts of Tibetan Buddhism from the Eight Steps to Enlightenment to the Six Principles of Enlightened Living, and sets them in the context of our Western lives and experiences.


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Tags: Western, Buddhism, Awakening, Enlightenment, Buddha, Within
Invention of the Modern Cookbook
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Invention of the Modern Cookbook

Readers will discover that cookbooks were the product of careful invention by highly skilled chefs and profit-minded publishers who designed them for maximum audience appeal, responding to a changing readership and cultural conditions and utilizing innovative marketing and promotion techniques still practiced today. They will see how cookbooks helped women adjust to the changes of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution by educating them on a range of subjects from etiquette to dealing with household servants. And they will learn how the books themselves became "modern"...
 
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Tags: cookbooks, range, educating, subjects, etiquette, Industrial, Enlightenment, Revolution
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism
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Friedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment and RomanticismFriedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism

Friedrich Schleiermacher's groundbreaking work in theology and philosophy was forged in the cultural ferment of Berlin at the convergence of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
 
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Tags: Friedrich, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Schleiermacher, convergence, Between