The Art of Controversy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 10 original MP3 tracks, 3:13:31 running time and a link to listen.
The Art of Controversy, credited to Arthur Schopenhauer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right), by Arthur Schopenhauer. Translated by T. Bailey Saunders. Read by Carl Manchester. The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) (Die Kunst, Recht zu Behalten) is a short treatise written in 1831 by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in which he presents thirty-eight methods of gaining an unfair advantage in a debate and thereby being right even if you are wrong. Schopenhauer champions the virtue of dialectical argument, in his view wrongly neglected by philosophers in favour of logic, and goes on to discuss the distinction between our conscious intellectual powers and our will. The text is a favourite of debaters including the philosophers AC Grayling and Mary Warnock, and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson. (Summary by Carl Manchester)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Art of Controversy
- Author credits: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 10
- Listed recording duration: 3:13:31
Catalogue topics
- debate
- argument
- philosophy
- schopenhauer
Track guide
- 01 - Preliminary: Logic and Dialectic — 24:38
- 02 - The Basis of All Dialectic — 4:52
- 03 - Strategems 1 to 10 — 15:59
- 04 - Stratagems 11 to 20 — 9:30
- 05 - Strategems 21 to 30 — 19:03
- 06 - Strategems 31 to 38 — 14:04
- 07 - On the Comparative Place of Interest and Beauty in Works of Art — 22:31
- 08 - Psychological Observations — 17:40
- 09 - On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms — 36:52
- 10 - Genius and Virtue — 28:25
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