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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 77 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 306 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 737 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: 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 168 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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    • By: James D. Reid, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: James D. Reid
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the 17th to 18th centuries, bold thinkers cast off the authority of ancient traditions and embraced reason as the primary tool for understanding the world. Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes and the Rationalists covers the key philosophers of this period in 12 fascinating half-hour lectures.

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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 481 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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    • 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 83 ratings
    • In Remaking the World, Andrew Wilson highlights 7 major developments from the year 1776—globalization, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Enrichment, the American Revolution, the rise of post-Christianity, and the dawn of Romanticism.

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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 359 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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    • 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 1,755 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 422 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 99 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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    • From Beginner to Advanced Practices in Stoic Philosophy for Resilience, Inner Peace, and Wisdom
    • By: Adrian Cole
    • Narrated by: KC Wayman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Transform your life with the ancient wisdom of Stoicism, a practical philosophy that has helped countless individuals overcome life’s challenges and find purpose.

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    • Last Words on Life, Love, War & God
    • By: Will Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 500 ratings
    • The final and most personal work from Pulitzer Prize - winning author and historian Will Durant - discovered 32 years after his death - is a message of insight for everyone....

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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 17 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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    • By: Ken Wilber
    • Narrated by: Steve Grad, Willow Pearson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • A Brief History of Everything is an altogether friendly and accessible account of men and women's place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit, by Ken Wilber. Wilber examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter to life to mind....

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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 144 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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    • 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 208 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Michael Tanner
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • 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....

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    • An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
    • By: Michel Foucault
    • Narrated by: James Gillies
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that man—man as a subject of scientific knowledge—is at best a recent invention, the result of a fundamental mutation in our culture.

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