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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
- By: Abena Dadze-Arthur
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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Clifford Geertz's first collection of essays, The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), made him a leading voice of anthropology's "symbolic" movement, which believed scholars should read the signs and symbols of a culture from the perspective of its natives. Geertz's approach helped anthropology reinvent itself as a scientific discipline that is still relevant today, making him - in the words of one critic - "a true giant of social and cultural theory."
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Clifford Geertz The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 27-06-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- By: Helen Roche
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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US-born historian of Europe Timothy Snyder first published Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin in 2010. In it, he argues that previous accounts of World War II have kept Nazi and Soviet crimes unduly separate, with much more attention paid to Adolf Hitler's atrocities than Joseph Stalin's. Snyder's view is that a definitive history of the period must depict the suffering of all of the conflict's victims.
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Repetitive beyond belief
- By AvidIrishReader on 13-03-18
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A Macat Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 28-07-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
- By: Tim Smith-Laing
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Philosopher Judith Butler's 1990 work, Gender Trouble, shook the foundations of feminist theory and changed the conversation about gender. While many thinkers already accepted that "gender" was a category constructed by society rather than defined by one's genitalia, Butler went further and argued that gender is performative - it exists only in the acts that express it. Society determines that wearing makeup is "feminine" - but some men wear makeup. Are they "women"?
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Judith Butler is gendered
- By M on 26-02-23
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-06-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- By: Sebastián G Guzmán, James Hill
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Max Weber was the first to identify beliefs and practices that influenced economic behavior. He found Catholics generally less motivated to succeed in business than Protestants because of their religious belief that everyone could achieve salvation. The branch of Protestants known as Calvinists, on the other hand, believed God determined everyone's salvation status before birth. Nothing a person might do on earth could save a soul marked for damnation.
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Straightforward and gets you thinking
- By Dave Cook on 22-07-17
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Release date: 20-07-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
- By: Andreas Vrahimis
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
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Among the general public, Descartes is probably most famous for his pronouncement "I think, therefore I am." That statement first appeared in an earlier work, but he expands on it in Meditations as he considers the idea of the mind as a separate entity to the body - the "dualist" approach. Descartes also set out to dispel skepticism - the idea that one cannot truly know anything. Using his "methodological skepticism," he showed that by doubting everything, we can know some things beyond doubt.
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very useful resource
- By Robert Brown on 29-09-22
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of René Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-06-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man
- By: Macat Int
- Narrated by: Macat Int
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
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When American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, Western liberal democracies seemed to have won the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Fukuyama believed liberal democracy had triumphed for a reason. Any political system containing "fundamental contradictions," he thought, would eventually be replaced by something else. For Fukuyama, communism was such a system.
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man
- Narrated by: Macat Int
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-05-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Tversky's Judgment Under Uncertainty
- By: Dr. Camille Morvan, Dr. William J. Jenkins
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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Published in 1974 in the journal Science, the article Judgment Under Uncertainty had a profound impact across the social sciences. Two relatively young Israeli psychologists were challenging the leading ideas about human thought. For decades, social scientists had used a mythical figure to describe how humans make decisions: homo economicus. Homo economicus was logical and conscientious.
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turgid despitr quality of original ideas
- By rv5 on 21-01-17
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A Macat Analysis of Tversky's Judgment Under Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 28-07-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture
- By: The Macat Team
- Narrated by: The Macat Team
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
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Bhabha investigates concepts such as "hybridity," the notion that ideas are made up of all the different cultures with which they have contact, and "mimicry," the way in which a person or group adopts an idea from another culture, to express a postcolonial world, where we are all "in between" cultures. These concepts have been important to postcolonial studies, but have also been taken up in such diverse areas as architecture and literature. Although criticized by some for insisting that the written word was as powerful as armed resistance in the struggle against colonizing forces.
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture
- Narrated by: The Macat Team
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-08-17
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology
- By: Jeffrey A. Becker, Kitty Wheater
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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Linguistic structuralism studies the meaning of language based not just on definitions, but also on the relationships of words and sounds to each other. Lévi-Strauss's insight was to see that this concept of structuralism in linguistics could be applied to anthropology as well. He saw that while some cultures are very different from others, they all seem to have certain internal structural relationships in common. By tracing these structures across cultures, he tried to answer nothing less than the eternal question: "What is man?"
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-07-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise
- By: Stoyan Stoyanov, Monique Diderich
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Traditionally, managers assumed people were lazy and would not work unless strictly controlled. McGregor, however, believed this form of management to be based on faulty assumptions about human nature, and felt that managers should reflect on their assumptions about what motivates people. He proposed they draw on research in psychology and the other social sciences to create working conditions that allow all employees to realize their full human potential.
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A Macat Analysis of Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-07-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
- By: James Orr
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Meditations is a remarkable work, a unique insight into the thinking of one of the most conscientious and able Roman emperors, Marcus Aurelius, who ruled at the apex of Roman might in the late second century CE. It was never intended to be widely circulated. Indeed, it was almost unknown until the 16th century. The work is like a series of jottings, written for its author's own improvement; it has no formal structure and its arguments follow no obvious pattern.
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-07-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue
- By: Jon W. Thompson
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- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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This is a book for anyone who wants to understand exactly what we mean by ethics and morality today. One of the most vital and controversial works in the 20th-century world of moral philosophy, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue examines how we think about, talk about, and act out our moral views in the modern world. Finding that the ways in which we engage in our moral reasoning have no common standard of judgment, MacIntyre's 1981 book challenges many contemporary theories of morals.
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mediocre and repetitive
- By Erim on 10-05-19
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-06-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
- By: Giovanni Gellera, Jon W. Thompson
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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According to Aristotle, the ultimate human good is eudaimonia, an ancient Greek word that can be translated as happiness, or flourishing. Eudaimonia comes from a life of virtuous (or good) action. Virtues such as justice, restraint, and practical wisdom cannot simply be taught - they must be developed over time by cultivating virtuous habits. The making of virtuous choices can be developed by using practical wisdom and by recognizing the desirable middle ground between extremes of human behavior.
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A Macat Analysis of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-07-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
- By: Nick Burton
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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When Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises was first published in 1978, the world was entering a new period of global economic turbulence. Established economists based their analyses on the assumption that investors act rationally, and these economists often communicated their ideas with dry, technical language. Kindleberger rebelled against convention. Using a more literary and descriptive style, he came up with a new view.
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sales pitch
- By peter on 18-01-23
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A Macat Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 27-06-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine
- By: Dr. John Wagner Givens
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- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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Note: This is a summary and analysis of Mao's Great Famine and not the original book. Historian Frank Dikötter used a brief window of political openness before the 2008 Beijing Olympics in China to get inside official archives and gather evidence of the terrible toll the Great Chinese Famine took on ordinary people. He also discovered how Communist leaders caused, and then covered up, the catastrophe. Dikötter shows the disaster was much worse than previously thought, with a death toll of at least 45 million.
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A Macat Analysis of Dikotter's Mao's Great Famine
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
- Release date: 27-06-16
- Language: English
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- By: John Collins
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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In his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes argued that traditional economics has misunderstood the causes of unemployment. Employment is not determined by the price of labor; it is directly linked to demand in the economy. Keynes believed market economies are by nature unstable and so require government intervention. Spurred on by the social catastrophe of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Keynes set out to change the way the world thinks about economics.
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Analysis: A Macat Analysis of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 30-06-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of James E. Lovelock's Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- By: Mohammad Shamsudduha
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- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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James E. Lovelock says the Earth (Gaia) is a superorganism, made up of all living things, interacting with the air, the oceans, and the surface rocks of the planet. He suggests Gaia takes an active role in keeping the planet safe for life, with automatic feedback mechanisms making adjustments as needed. Lovelock describes feedback mechanisms that are widely accepted. It is the implication that Gaia is somehow self-aware that is controversial.
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A Macat Analysis of James E. Lovelock's Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 26-07-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Theodore Levitt's Marketing Myopia
- By: Elissavet Mamali, Monique Diderich
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
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German-born thinker Theodore Levitt's groundbreaking 1960 article Marketing Myopia established him as a world-famous business figure and led to him being dubbed "the father of modern marketing." At the time he published the piece, marketing did not even exist as a separate business discipline. Recognizing that companies went bust when the market for their products dried up, Levitt set to finding out why. He wrote Marketing Myopia as a manifesto.
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A Macat Analysis of Theodore Levitt's Marketing Myopia
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 49 mins
- Release date: 27-06-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
- By: Ben Worthy, Riley Quinn
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- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Though written around 1513, more than 500 years ago, Italian diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince is still both widely listened to and very influential. Listeners turn to it for its direct advice on the question of how to attain - and retain - power. Machiavelli's answer, in brief: Use any means necessary to make sure the state survives.
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A Macat Analysis of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
- Release date: 06-06-16
- Language: English
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A Macat Analysis of Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War
- By: Patrick Glen, Bryan R. Gibson
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- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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The title of Norwegian-born historian Odd Arne Westad's 2005 work - The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - offers a window into his thesis. Between the end of World War II and the early 1990s, both the Soviet Union and the United States "intervened" (or "offered aid and support to") developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In Westad's view, these interventions were more important than events in Europe, where most studies of the Cold War focus.
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A Macat Analysis of Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War
- Narrated by: Macat.com
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 27-07-16
- Language: English
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