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    • Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
    • By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Series: Incerto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
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    • From the New York Times best-selling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion....

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    • Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
    • By: Eric Hoffer
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
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    • A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards.

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    • Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
    • By: Massimo Pigliucci
    • Narrated by: Peter Coleman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life....

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    • By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Greg Baglia
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
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    • One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks where the self comes from - and how our selves can exist in the minds of others....

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    • Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    • By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: Incerto
    • Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-10
    • Language: English
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    • By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect....

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    • A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
    • By: Johan Huizinga
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-listen” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits....

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    • By: Slavoj Žižek
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 88 ratings
    • 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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    • How Randomness Rules Our Lives
    • By: Leonard Mlodinow
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-08
    • Language: English
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    • Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....

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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
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    • 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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    • Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
    • By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • From the author of the critically acclaimed Interior States comes a strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Logic of Misogyny
    • By: Kate Manne
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
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    • Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics....

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    • The Price of Progress
    • By: Christopher Ryan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ryan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
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    • The New York Times best-selling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live — how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die....

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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
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    • 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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