The New Idealism: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The New Idealism, credited to May Sinclair, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The New Idealism by May Sinclair. Read in English by Expatriate The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an outdated way of thought or of Art. Though a generation older than the famous literati of the postwar era, she clearly perceived what was worth saving of the old and what was worth embracing of the new. This is clear, of course, in her remarkable fiction, particularly in the astonishing “Life and Death of Harriet Frean,” “Mary Olivier,” and “Tree of Heaven,” in which she broke new ground in psychological and stream-of-consciousness fiction. It is also true, however, in her crystal-clear philosophical works, “In Defense of Idealism” and “The New Idealism.” Though philosophical Idealism had become passé to many in the new era of scientific and mathematical Realism, Sinclair saw an opportunity to transmute her beloved, hard-won philosophy into a new kind of Idealism, one which absorbed the valuable insights of realists such as Einstein, Samuel Alexander, Alfred North Whitehead, and Bertrand Russell rather than rejecting them, producing a keen-eyed new view of transcendence and mystical meaning in the Universe. ( Expatriate)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The New Idealism
• Author credits: May Sinclair
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 11:08:13

Catalogue topics

• idealism
• women's literature

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Introduction — 12:30
2. 02 - I.01a: The Old Idealism (The Position) — 8:38
3. 03 - I.01b: The Old Idealism (Epistemology) — 16:42
4. 04 - I.01c: The Old Idealism (Future of Idealism) — 3:48
5. 05 - I.02a: The New Realism (The Realist Position) — 15:56
6. 06 - I.02b: The New Realism (The Realist Theory of Memory) — 13:17
7. 07 - I.02c: The New Realism (The Realist Theory of Relation & Knowledge) — 16:45
8. 08 - I.02d: The New Realism (The Strength of Realism) — 2:13
9. 09 - I.02e: The New Realism (Objections) — 22:31
10. 10 - I.03a: Some Realist Theories of Perception 01 (Prof. Broad & the Real Counterpart) — 21:03
11. 11 - I.03a: Some Realist Theories of Perception 02 (Prof. Broad & the Real Counterpart) — 22:41
12. 12 - I.03a: Some Realist Theories of Perception 03 (Prof. Broad & the Real Counterpart) — 23:20
13. 13 - I.03b: Some Realist Theories of Perception 01 (Prof. Whitehead & the Concept of Nature) — 21:49
14. 14 - I.03b: Some Realist Theories of Perception 02 (Prof. Whitehead & the Concept of Nature) — 25:58
15. 15 - I.03b: Some Realist Theories of Perception 03 (Prof. Whitehead & the Concept of Nature) — 25:05
16. 16 - I.03c: Some Realist Theories of Perception 01 (The Critical Realists) — 24:26
17. 17 - I.03c: Some Realist Theories of Perception 02 (The Critical Realists) — 25:34
18. 18 - I.04a: Antinomies of Space & Time (The Antinomies) — 6:32
19. 19 - I.04b: Antinomies of Space & Time (Some Modern Solutions) — 34:51
20. 20 - I.04c: Antinomies of Space & Time (The Compact Series Considered) — 7:15
21. 21 - I.05a: Space, Time & Deity 01 (Space-Time) — 17:23
22. 22 - I.05a: Space, Time & Deity 02 (Space-Time) — 19:43
23. 23 - I.05b: Space, Time & Deity (The Categories) — 27:03
24. 24 - I.05c: Space, Time & Deity (Quality) — 8:47

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