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    • A Message for an Age of Anxiety
    • By: Alan Watts, Deepak Chopra - introduction MD
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In The Wisdom of Insecurity, Watts explains complex concepts in beautifully simple terms, making this the kind of book you can return to again and again for comfort and insight in challenging times....

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    • By: Bertrand Russell
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 38 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 297 ratings
    • Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy....

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    • An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, nontechnical language to present complex, cutting-edge theories that integrate the realms of body, mind, soul, and spirit.....

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    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is essential....

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is an essay on revolution. As old regimes throughout the world collapse, this classic resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times....

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    • How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
    • By: Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay
    • Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,748 ratings
    • Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Listen to find out more....

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    • Who Needs It
    • By: Ayn Rand
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 418 ratings
    • Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone....

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    • Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
    • By: Sarah Bakewell
    • Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 613 ratings
    • Spinoza's system and conclusions have compelling beauty unequaled in the history of philosophy....

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    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
    • Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 988 ratings
    • With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone....

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    • How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West
    • By: Andrew Wilson
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wilson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • In this skillfully researched audiobook, Andrew Wilson explains how 7 historic events in 1776 shaped today’s post-Christian West and equips believers to share God’s truth in the current social landscape.

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    • By: Alasdair MacIntyre
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery....

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    • An Introduction
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex....

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    • Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
    • By: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
    • By: Michael Inwood
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher", by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the 20th century....

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    • The Birth of the Prison
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • This groundbreaking audiobook by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about the ensuing reforms in the penal institutions of the West....

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    • Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade that Reinvented Philosophy
    • By: Wolfram Eilenberger, Shaun Whiteside
    • Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the 20th century....

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    • By: Hannah Arendt
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. This work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental....

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