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Audiobooks by Jean-Francois Revel
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Twenty-seven years ago, Matthieu Ricard gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism-not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters. Years later, this project was born, and Richard met with his father, Jean-Francois Revel-a French philosopher who became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. At an inn overlooking Kathmandu, these two profoundly thoughtful men explored questions that have occupied humankind throughout its history: Does life have meaning? What is consciousness? Is man free? What is the value of scientific and material progress? Why is there suffering, war, and hatred? Utterly absorbing, inspiring, and accessible, that conversation became this remarkable dialogue - one that engages East with West, ideas with life, and science with the humanities, providing wisdom concerning how to enrich the way we live our lives.
Angered by the post-September 11 criticism of the United States, a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-François Revel has written Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that comes to America's defense.
"An intellectual tour de force and a joy to read."-Times Literary Supplement
Angered by these assaults on a nation he knows and admires, the distinguished French intellectual Jean-Frangois Revel has come to America's defense in Anti-Americanism, a biting and erudite book that -- paradoxically, given his country's especially vehement attack on the U.S. -- spent several weeks last year at the top of France's best-seller list.
In 1996, internationally-renowned philosopher Jean-Francois Revel and his son Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk, spent ten days in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu discussing the most fundamental questions of human existence.
