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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- By: Jeremy Lent
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance46
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As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview of disconnection, which tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other and at odds with the natural world, has passed its expiration date. Yet another world is possible. Award-winning author Jeremy Lent investigates humanity's age-old questions - who am I? why am I? how should I live? - from a fresh perspective.
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The Patterning Instinct Repeated.
- By Terry Miles on 18-10-21
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The Web of Meaning
- Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
- Narrated by: Adam Henderson
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-07-21
- Language: English
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Slow Down
- How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
- By: Kohei Saito
- Narrated by: Kohei Saito, Troy Glasgow
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 'ACCESSIBLE AND CONVINCING' - SALLY ROONEY Capitalism by its very nature puts us at odds with the environment. Therefore, argues award-winning Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito, the future must belong to a new form of communism, the only fair and humane existence...
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Terrible narrator for important book
- By StuP on 26-02-26
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Slow Down
- How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
- Narrated by: Kohei Saito, Troy Glasgow
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 18-01-24
- Language: English
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How to Own the Room
- Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking
- By: Viv Groskop
- Narrated by: Viv Groskop
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall243
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Performance203
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Most books about public speaking don’t tell you what to do when you open your mouth and nothing comes out. And they don’t tell you how to get over the anxiety about performance that most people naturally have. They don’t tell you what to do in the moments when you are made, as a woman, to feel small. They don’t tell you how to own the room. This book does.
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Meh. Too much of the author's politics seeping in
- By In A Bookish Mood on 25-02-20
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How to Own the Room
- Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking
- Narrated by: Viv Groskop
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 23-05-19
- Language: English
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The Agony of Eros
- By: Byung-Chul Han, Erik Butler - translator, Alain Badiou - foreword
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self.
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The Agony of Eros
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Series: Byung-Chul Han: The Collected Audio Works
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Release date: 02-10-24
- Language: English
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Unshrinking
- How to Fight Fatphobia
- By: Kate Manne
- Narrated by: Kate Manne
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She's been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. Blending intimate stories with the analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue.
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Unshrinking
- How to Fight Fatphobia
- Narrated by: Kate Manne
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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Cynical Theories
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall600
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Performance506
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Story493
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? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed to challenge the logic of Western society? In this probing volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields.
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Outstanding scholarship and eloquent arguments
- By Oxfordians on 04-12-20
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Cynical Theories
- How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity - and Why This Harms Everybody
- Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-10-20
- Language: English
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How To Be A Stoic
- Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living
- By: Massimo Pigliucci
- Narrated by: Peter Coleman
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall102
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Performance78
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'In this thought-provoking book, Massimo Pigliucci shares his journey of discovering the power of Stoic practices in a philosophical dialogue with one of Stoicism's greatest teachers.' RYAN HOLIDAY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY AND THE DAILY STOIC Who...
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a very useful introduction to a worthwhile subject
- By greg Stevens on 13-11-20
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How To Be A Stoic
- Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living
- Narrated by: Peter Coleman
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Determined
- The Science of Life Without Free Will
- By: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall213
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Performance187
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The existence of free will - our ability to choose between one course of action and another, to determine our own destiny - is a foundation stone of Western society, dictating our notions of fairness and justice, punishment and reward, our very identity as individuals and humans. But as world-renowned scientist Robert Sapolsky shows, there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that free will exists, even while everything in our biology leads us to believe that it does.
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Unserious but passionate and fascinating
- By Kindle Customer on 30-08-24
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Determined
- The Science of Life Without Free Will
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 19-10-23
- Language: English
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Wild Service
- Why Nature Needs You
- By: Nick Hayes
- Narrated by: Nadia Shaikh
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance15
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In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European countries on three factors: biodiversity, wellbeing, and nature connectedness. Britain came last in every single category. The findings are clear. We are suffering, and nature is too. Enter ‘Wild Service’ – a visionary concept crafted by the pioneers of the Right to Roam campaign, which argues that humanity’s loss and nature’s need are two sides of the same story. Blending science, nature writing and indigenous philosophy, this groundbreaking book calls for mass reconnection to the land.
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Engaging read
- By katy on 28-05-24
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Wild Service
- Why Nature Needs You
- Narrated by: Nadia Shaikh
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-04-24
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- By: Christine Rosen
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Brought to you by Penguin. The Extinction of Experience reveals the true cost of our digital age – and shows us how to return to the real world, while we still can. Human experiences are disappearing. Community is now found online; schools prioritise typing; and with headphones in and eyes...
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An important work that will become more salient as time passes.
- By Anonymous on 08-04-26
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The Extinction of Experience
- Reclaiming Our Humanity in a Digital World
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 23-01-25
- Language: English
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- By: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance20
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The author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self Our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of...
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Everyone should read this book
- By Alex on 02-11-20
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- Narrated by: Steve Wojtas
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-08-17
- Language: English
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Nihilism
- The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
- By: Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose
- Narrated by: David A. Conatser
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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In 1962, the young Eugene Rose - the future Hieromonk Seraphim - undertook to write a monumental chronicle of the abandonment of truth in the modern age. Of the hundreds of pages of materials he compiled for this work, only the present essay, on nihilism, has come down to us in completed form. Here Eugene reveals the core of all modern thought and life - the belief that all truth is relative - and shows how this belief has been translated into action in our era. Today, more than half a century after he wrote it, this essay is more timely than ever.
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Simply Amazing
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-22
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Nihilism
- The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
- Narrated by: David A. Conatser
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-12-21
- Language: English
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Against Progress
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance3
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In thirteen iconoclastic essays, Slavoj Žižek disrupts the death-grip that neoliberalists, Trumpian populists, toxic self-improvement industries and accelerationists alike have established on the idea of progress. Anatomizing what is lost when opponents of the future are allowed to define it, Žižek ruthlessly exposes what different visions of progress exclude or sacrifice and the dynamics of desire, denial and disavowal at work in Hollywood blockbusters, Buddhist economics, decolonization movements and other engines of vision.
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Against Progress
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-11-25
- Language: English
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- By: John Locke
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 30 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance7
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John Locke and his works - particularly An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - are regularly and rightly presented as foundations for the Age of Enlightenment. His primary epistemological message - that the mind at birth is a blank sheet waiting to be filled by the experiences of the senses - complemented his primary political message: that human beings are free and equal and have the right to envision, create and direct the governments that rule them and the societies within which they live.
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Outstanding narration
- By s l bassett on 02-10-18
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 30 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-07-18
- Language: English
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Liberal Fascisms
- Žižek's Essays
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascism, structured around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the single: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump's America. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us – like 'post-truth'– to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, these writings reveal the uneasy mixture of lies and truths that have always been stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another.
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Liberal Fascisms
- Žižek's Essays
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 30-04-26
- Language: English
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Against Identity
- The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
- By: Alexander Douglas
- Narrated by: Alexander Douglas
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance7
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Brought to you by Penguin. Modern life encourages us to pursue the perfect identity. Whether we aspire to become the best lawyer or charity worker, life partner or celebrity influencer, we emulate exemplars that exist in the world – hoping it will bring us happiness. But this often leads to a...
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Fascinating ideas expounded brilliantly
- By Lauren Slater on 17-07-25
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Against Identity
- The Wisdom of Escaping the Self
- Narrated by: Alexander Douglas
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 19-06-25
- Language: English
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The Rule of Law
- By: Tom Bingham
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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'The Rule of Law' is a phrase much used but little examined. The idea of the rule of law as the foundation of modern states and civilizations has recently become even more talismanic than that of democracy, but what does it actually consist of? In this brilliant audiobook, Britain's former senior law lord, and one of the world's most acute legal minds, examines what the idea actually means.
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Asleep at the wheel complacency
- By Marino10 on 01-04-26
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The Rule of Law
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-02-24
- Language: English
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The Score
- How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
- By: C. Thi Nguyen
- Narrated by: C. Thi Nguyen
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Brought to you by Penguin. Is this the game you want to be playing? Scoring systems are everywhere. Underpinning our daily lives – whether it’s the fit bits on our wrists, likes on social media, and even school rankings – they have become pervasive and increasingly dangerous, warping our...
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Mildly interesting but way too long for a Harvard Business Review piece
- By Mr. D. Whittaker on 15-04-26
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The Score
- How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
- Narrated by: C. Thi Nguyen
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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The Sane Society
- By: Erich Fromm
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance14
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The Sane Society is a continuation and extension of the brilliant psychiatric concepts Erich Fromm first formulated in Escape from Freedom; it is also, in many ways, an answer to Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. Fromm examines man’s escape into over conformity and the danger of robotism in contemporary industrial society: Modern humanity has, he maintains, been alienated from the world of their own creation. Here Fromm offers a complete and systematic exploration of his “humanistic psychoanalysis.”
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Sanity in itself
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-22
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The Sane Society
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-01-14
- Language: English
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
- By: Slavoj Žižek
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance24
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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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Great book ruined by narration
- By Stevenph7 on 05-02-21
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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