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Madness and Civilization

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

by Michel Foucault ...

Narrated by Dave Gillies ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about ... Read more

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In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization, Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking shock, pity, and fascination, it might also make you question the way you think about
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Discipline & Punish

The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault ...

Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

Unabridged

13 hours 8 min

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing ... Read more

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Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by Michel Foucault, the most influential philosopher since Sartre, compels us to reevaluate our assumptions about all the ensuing
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Philosophical Investigations

by Ludwig Wittgenstein ...

Narrated by Jonathan Booth ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

Philosophical Investigations - a landmark in 20th century philosophy - was published in 1953, two years after the death of its author. In the preface written in Cambridge in 1945 where he was professor of philosophy he states: ‘Four years ago I had occasion to re-read my first book (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) and to explain its ideas to someone. It suddenly seemed to me that I should ... Read more

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Philosophical Investigations - a landmark in 20th century philosophy - was published in 1953, two years after the death of its author. In the preface written in Cambridge in 1945 where he was professor of philosophy he states: ‘Four years ago I had occasion to re-read my first book (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus) and to explain its ideas to someone. It suddenly seemed to me that I should
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The Human Condition

Second Edition

by Hannah Arendt ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

Unabridged

15 hours 42 min

The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah ... Read more

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The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah
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The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli ...

Narrated by Paul Adams ...

Unabridged

4 hours 18 min

"The Prince" is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the most remembered, and the work responsible ... Read more

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"The Prince" is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The treatise is not representative of the work published during his lifetime, but it is the most remembered, and the work responsible
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The Sublime Object of Ideology

by Slavoj Zizek ...

Narrated by Chris MacDonnell ...

Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society. ... Read more

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Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1

An Introduction

by Michel Foucault ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

5 hours 11 min

Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is ... Read more

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Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the West since the seventeenth century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic, and political forces that have shaped our attitudes toward sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Michel Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is
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The Rebel

An Essay on Man in Revolt

by Albert Camus ...

Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

Unabridged

11 hours 44 min

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the “essential dimensions” of human nature, manifested in man’s timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward ... Read more

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By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the “essential dimensions” of human nature, manifested in man’s timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward
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Heaven in Disorder

by Slavoj Zizek ...

Narrated by Will Tulin ...

Unabridged

7 hours 9 min

As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed, "There is great disorder under heaven; the situation ... Read more

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As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos.Acknowledging the possibilities for new beginnings at such moments, Mao Zedong famously proclaimed, "There is great disorder under heaven; the situation
... Read more
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Nietzsche

A Very Short Introduction

by Michael Tanner ...

Unabridged

3 hours 35 min

With his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner's introduction to the philosopher's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings and explodes many of the misconceptions that have grown in the hundred years since Nietzsche wrote "do not, above all, confound me ... Read more

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With his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner's introduction to the philosopher's life and work examines the numerous ambiguities inherent in his writings and explodes many of the misconceptions that have grown in the hundred years since Nietzsche wrote "do not, above all, confound me
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L'homme révolté

by Albert Camus ...

Narrated by Stéphane Varupenne ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

« Deux siècles de révolte, métaphysique ou historique, s’offrent justement à notre réflexion. Un historien, seul, pourrait prétendre à exposer en détail les doctrines et les mouvements qui s’y succèdent. Du moins, il doit être possible d’y chercher un fil conducteur. Les pages qui suivent proposent seulement quelques repères historiques et une hypothèse de lecture. Cette hypothèse n’est pas la ... Read more

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« Deux siècles de révolte, métaphysique ou historique, s’offrent justement à notre réflexion. Un historien, seul, pourrait prétendre à exposer en détail les doctrines et les mouvements qui s’y succèdent. Du moins, il doit être possible d’y chercher un fil conducteur. Les pages qui suivent proposent seulement quelques repères historiques et une hypothèse de lecture. Cette hypothèse n’est pas la
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Conjectures and Refutations

The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

by Karl Popper ...

Narrated by Martyn Swain ...

Unabridged

22 hours 14 min

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge but our aims and our standards ... Read more

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Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper’s most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insights into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge but our aims and our standards
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In Our Time: 25 Thinkers Who Shaped Modern Philosophy

A BBC Radio 4 Collection

by Melvyn Bragg ...

Narrated by Melvyn Bragg ...

Series series In Our Time
Unabridged

22 hours 17 min

Melvyn Bragg and guests chart 500 years of Western philosophy through its most influential ideas and theorists'Listen to this and you'll never regret it' The IndependentFirst aired in 1998, In Our Time has become one of Radio 4's most beloved and enduring shows, regularly attracting an audience of over 2 million. Each week, Melvyn Bragg and his panel of guest experts take part in an erudite, ... Read more

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Melvyn Bragg and guests chart 500 years of Western philosophy through its most influential ideas and theorists'Listen to this and you'll never regret it' The IndependentFirst aired in 1998, In Our Time has become one of Radio 4's most beloved and enduring shows, regularly attracting an audience of over 2 million. Each week, Melvyn Bragg and his panel of guest experts take part in an erudite,
... Read more
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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom)

by Friedrich Nietzsche ...

Narrated by Michael Lunts ...

Unabridged

10 hours 58 min

The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the epitome of his famous aphoristic style. 'Morality is ... Read more

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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the epitome of his famous aphoristic style. 'Morality is
... Read more
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Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

by John Locke ...

Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

Unabridged

11 hours 2 min

John Locke (1632-1704) was a product of his troubled times: he lived through the English Civil War, the Interregnum, the Restoration, Monmouth’s Rebellion, the Bloody Assizes and the Glorious Revolution. His empirical thinking was very much directed at finding rational solutions to the root causes of those troubles. Considered the founder of English empiricism and a precursor of the Enlightenment, ... Read more

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John Locke (1632-1704) was a product of his troubled times: he lived through the English Civil War, the Interregnum, the Restoration, Monmouth’s Rebellion, the Bloody Assizes and the Glorious Revolution. His empirical thinking was very much directed at finding rational solutions to the root causes of those troubles. Considered the founder of English empiricism and a precursor of the Enlightenment,
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American Philosophy

A Love Story

by John Kaag ...

Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around.In American Philosophy, John Kaag—a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career—stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions ... Read more

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The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around.In American Philosophy, John Kaag—a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career—stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions
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Critique of Judgement

by Immanuel Kant ...

Narrated by Michael Lunts ...

Unabridged

15 hours 10 min

Kant’s Critique of Judgement is the third and final part of his series of Critiques, which began with Critique of Pure Reason and continued with Critique of Practical Reason.Critique of Judgement was published in 1790 and is divided into two parts, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement and the Critique of Teleological Judgement.Our ‘judgements of taste’, as Kant describes our aesthetic judgements, ... Read more

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Kant’s Critique of Judgement is the third and final part of his series of Critiques, which began with Critique of Pure Reason and continued with Critique of Practical Reason.Critique of Judgement was published in 1790 and is divided into two parts, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement and the Critique of Teleological Judgement.Our ‘judgements of taste’, as Kant describes our aesthetic judgements,
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God or Nature, Whatever

Spinoza's Guide to Getting Excommunicated from Every Religion Simultaneously

by Sophia Blackwell ...

Narrated by Benjamin Powell ...

Series series Cogito Ergo Nope
Unabridged

1 hour 20 min

God or Nature, Whatever is what happens when a philosophy grad student decides to explain Baruch Spinoza—the 17th-century lens grinder who got canceled by every major religion—using sarcasm, swearing, and a deeply unhealthy relationship with Euclidean geometry.Sophia Blackwell takes Spinoza's Ethics (a book structured like a math textbook, only less fun) and translates it into plain, hilarious, ... Read more

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God or Nature, Whatever is what happens when a philosophy grad student decides to explain Baruch Spinoza—the 17th-century lens grinder who got canceled by every major religion—using sarcasm, swearing, and a deeply unhealthy relationship with Euclidean geometry.Sophia Blackwell takes Spinoza's Ethics (a book structured like a math textbook, only less fun) and translates it into plain, hilarious,
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Digital Consciousness

by Tenille Bentley ...

Narrated by Russell Stamets ...

Unabridged

3 hours 57 min

"Let me thank you Tenille, because you are providing the world with great information that's necessary for evolution, and to me that's a service that is part of this whole evolutionary up-wising" Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D"Wow inspiring Tenille, I loved your warm natured format, thank you for sharing your amazing platform" Dr John DemartiniTenille offers insightful, thoughtful perspectives and ... Read more

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"Let me thank you Tenille, because you are providing the world with great information that's necessary for evolution, and to me that's a service that is part of this whole evolutionary up-wising" Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D"Wow inspiring Tenille, I loved your warm natured format, thank you for sharing your amazing platform" Dr John DemartiniTenille offers insightful, thoughtful perspectives and
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فن أن تكون دائمًا على صواب

by أرثور شوبنهاور, أرثور شوبنهاور ...

Narrated by محمد التام ...

Unabridged

2 hours 11 min

يهتم هذا الكتاب بموضوع (الحجج والمغالطات)، ففي كتابه "فن أن تكون دائماً على صواب" يقف آرثور شبنهاور على نماذج من الحيل التي يتم الاستناد اليها عندما تتنازع الأطراف المتحاجة وضماً معيناً. فقد يسعى كل طرف أو أحدهما الى النيل من خصمه باعتماد مختلف الوسائل المتعلقة بالأقوال والأحوال. ... Read more

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يهتم هذا الكتاب بموضوع (الحجج والمغالطات)، ففي كتابه "فن أن تكون دائماً على صواب" يقف آرثور شبنهاور على نماذج من الحيل التي يتم الاستناد اليها عندما تتنازع الأطراف المتحاجة وضماً معيناً. فقد يسعى كل طرف أو أحدهما الى النيل من خصمه باعتماد مختلف الوسائل المتعلقة بالأقوال والأحوال.
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Kant's Foundations of Ethics

by Immanuel Kant ...

Narrated by Albert A. Anderson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 4 min

These works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant's ethical and political world-view. "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) and "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) challenge all free people to think about the requirements for self-determination both in our individual lives and in our public and private institutions. Kant's "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics ... Read more

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These works articulate the most fundamental principles of Kant's ethical and political world-view. "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) and "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) challenge all free people to think about the requirements for self-determination both in our individual lives and in our public and private institutions. Kant's "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics
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A Small Truth a Day

366 Notes That Change a Year

by Rowan Linton ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

Most people do not lose years to dramatic disasters. They lose them to small, repeated inner bargains — tiny self-deceptions about work, money, ambition, and relationships that quietly rebuild an entire life from the inside out. A Small Truth a Day is a 366-note companion that names those bargains out loud and gives you a practical way to dismantle them, one day at a time. Drawing on the Stoic ... Read more

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Most people do not lose years to dramatic disasters. They lose them to small, repeated inner bargains — tiny self-deceptions about work, money, ambition, and relationships that quietly rebuild an entire life from the inside out. A Small Truth a Day is a 366-note companion that names those bargains out loud and gives you a practical way to dismantle them, one day at a time. Drawing on the Stoic
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Comprendre Rousseau

by Marie-Pierre Frondziak ...

Narrated by Isidore Amos ...

Unabridged

1 hour 38 min

Pourquoi les hommes, qui ont tant besoin les uns des autres, sont-ils toujours en opposition ? Cette introduction à la pensée de Rousseau, à partir de ses quatre œuvres majeures : Discours sur les sciences et les arts, Discours sur l’inégalité, Du Contrat social et l’Émile, nous permet de comprendre en quoi ce personnage à contre-courant de son temps est un précurseur. Rousseau est l’un des rares ... Read more

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Pourquoi les hommes, qui ont tant besoin les uns des autres, sont-ils toujours en opposition ? Cette introduction à la pensée de Rousseau, à partir de ses quatre œuvres majeures : Discours sur les sciences et les arts, Discours sur l’inégalité, Du Contrat social et l’Émile, nous permet de comprendre en quoi ce personnage à contre-courant de son temps est un précurseur. Rousseau est l’un des rares
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How Could I Believe in Santa Claus?

Philosophy in Everyday Life

by Gilles Vervisch ...

Narrated by Alan Cook ...

Unabridged

6 hours 13 min

How to be yourself at a party where you don’t know anyone? (Does the self exist?) Why does Grandma put a cap and a plaid sweater on her Yorkie? (Do animals have a reason?) How could I have stayed with such a stupid guy for so long? (Do we only desire things that we consider good?) When we hear “philosophy,” we sometimes think of incomprehensible or boring books. The very names of the authors are ... Read more

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How to be yourself at a party where you don’t know anyone? (Does the self exist?) Why does Grandma put a cap and a plaid sweater on her Yorkie? (Do animals have a reason?) How could I have stayed with such a stupid guy for so long? (Do we only desire things that we consider good?) When we hear “philosophy,” we sometimes think of incomprehensible or boring books. The very names of the authors are
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