Quoting from the back cover of the book, Dylan E. Wittkower has recorded numerous texts that can be downloaded from LibriVox.org.
Visiting the site, you can subscribe to D.E. Wittkower, ed.. "On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis" by Immanuel Kant in a “Chapter a day” iTunes format, download a single zip file of his recitation of the entire work, or listen to individual chapter mp3’s with 64kbps or 128kbps download options.
Scott F. Parker and I may be the exceptions to the rule, but my iPod has very few music tracks. I have several audio books, many sermons and studies and dramatized readings and other audio files. I am not an avid music listener; therefore my world does not revolve around an iPod playlist.
I also hope many additional titles, including textbooks and philosophy books become readily available through programs such as LibriVox.org and while I really appreciate Wittkower’s perfect enunciation and careful reading of the Kant text – I feel compelled to mention that his recitation is boring. Some of the other readers I sampled from this site were much more lively and nearly as clear. Back to chapter two – there has to be some coming together of aesthetics and efficiency for optimal results.
That Kant text is probably the most boring text I've ever recorded. It's a text I wanted to record for my Political Philosophy students, but I didn't expect that people in the general public would listen to it for fun, unless they were real Kant dorks (like me).
ReplyDeleteIf you'd like to hear a more exciting and entertaining recording of mine, try some Schopenhauer or Nietzsche:
http://librivox.org/studies-in-pessimism-by-arthur-schopenhauer/
http://librivox.org/the-twilight-of-the-idols-by-friedrich-nietzsche/
http://librivox.org/the-antichrist-by-nietzsche/
No offense intended - just an observation, and I did appreciate the opportunity to listen while driving from Amarillo to Lubbock.
ReplyDeleteI Would not have had that privilege if you had not taken the time and effort to make available - and I do appreciate the substantial effort. I have recorded several shorter texts for Lighthouse for the Blind and it is much more difficult than personal reading.