Philosophy audiobooks

The Four-Dimensional Human

By: Laurence Scott

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

You are a four-dimensional human.Each of us exists in three-dimensional physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global... Read more

The Dream of Enlightenment

By: Anthony Gottlieb

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought.Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony... Read more

Discipline & Punish

By: Michel Foucault

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

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... Read more

The Sunflower

By: Simon Wiesenthal

Narrated by: Robertson Dean & Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to—and obtain absolution from—a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth,... Read more

Liberal Fascism

By: Jonah Goldberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fascists," "Brownshirts," "jackbooted stormtroopers"—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst?



Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on... Read more

Mind Wide Open

By: Steven Johnson

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, MIND WIDE OPEN IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE.



Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes... Read more

Rumsfeld's War

By: Rowan Scarborough

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The man in the cockpit fighting the war on terror.



When terrorists crashed a plane into the Pentagon, he was there-helping carry the wounded to safety. And he's been there-leading the war on terror, directing its operations around the world in both open and covert missions, and bluntly focusing on one primary goal: killing terrorists. He is... Read more

The Genius of Judaism

By: Bernard-Henri Lévy

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From world-renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy comes an incisive and provocative look at the heart of Judaism.

“A smart, revealing, and essential book for our times.”—The Washington Post

For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage—one of the great moral voices of our time. Now Europe's... Read more

Knowing the Score

By: David Papineau

Narrated by: Matt Amendt

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting... Read more

Self-Reliance

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Narrated by: Peter Johnson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the spiritual to the economic, Emerson s Self-Reliance details the various aspects of a man s ability to rely on himself for survival. This 19th century essay resolutely supports Emerson s life-long belief in individualism and encourages mankind to pass over practices like conformity and false consistency for following intuition and... Read more

The Ramayana

By: Linda Egenes & Kumuda Reddy

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader or listener.
Here is one of the world's most hallowed works of sacred... Read more

The Art of Living

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Gabra Zackman

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

In troubled times, there is an urgency to understand ourselves and our world. We have so many questions, and they tug at us night and day, consciously and unconsciously. In this important volume Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh—one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today—reveals an art of living in mindfulness that helps us answer... Read more

The Dream of Enlightenment

By: Anthony Gottlieb

Narrated by: Anthony Gottlieb

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau. Read more

American Philosophy

By: John Kaag

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

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.... Read more

Come and Take It

By: Cody Wilson

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling philosophical manifesto for the twenty-first century on freedom of information, Come and Take It is the controversial yet thrilling story of the first ever-3D printable gun, developed by self-described crypto-anarchist and rogue thinker Cody Wilson.

In Defense Distributed, Cody Wilson’s employees worked against all odds to defend... Read more

Talking God

By: Gary Gutting

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Through interviews with twelve distinguished philosophers-including atheists, agnostics, and believers-Talking God works toward a philosophical understanding and evaluation of religion. Along the way, Gary Gutting and his interviewees challenge many common assumptions about religious beliefs.

As tensions simmer, and often explode, between the... Read more

The DIM Hypothesis

By: Leonard Peikoff

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In his groundbreaking and controversial book The DIM Hypothesis, Dr. Leonard Peikoff casts a penetrating new light on the process of human thought and thereby on Western culture and history.In this far-reaching study, Peikoff identifies the three methods people use to integrate concrete data into a whole, as when connecting diverse experiments... Read more

As Luck Would Have It

By: Joshua Piven

Narrated by: J. P. Guimont

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time, there was a swimming-pool repairman who only had a hundred-dollar bill to pay for a hot dog, requested the change in lottery tickets, and subsequently won $180 million. Strange, but ultimately true. In this insightful, thoroughly entertaining book, countless similar case studies of "as luck would have it …" are presented,... Read more

Draw Your Weapons

By: Sarah Sentilles

Narrated by: Sarah Sentilles

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference.

“How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?”

Through a dazzling combination of memoir,... Read more

Behaving Badly

By: Eden Collinsworth

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.

To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders are less and less respectable; in the realm of business,... Read more

Surfing with Sartre

By: Aaron James

Narrated by: Tristan Morris

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, a book that—in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance—uses the experience and the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy.

The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre once declared "the ideal limit of aquatic... Read more

The God Who Is There, 30th Anniversary Edition

By: Francis A. Schaeffer

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2006, Christianity Today voted The God Who Is There as one of the top fifty books that have shaped evangelicals.For decades, The God Who Is There has been the landmark book that changed the way the church sees the world. In Francis Schaeffer’s remarkable analysis, we learn where the clashing ideas about God, science, history, and art came... Read more

Philosophy of Mind

By: Andrew Pessin

Narrated by: Andrew Pessin

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The nature of the mind lies at the heart of the eternal human quest for understanding. What does it mean to think? What is the relation between mind and body, and where do we draw the line between physical and mental? With an enthusiastic and scholarly approach, Professor Andrew Pessin of Connecticut College addresses these and other questions,... Read more

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar...

By: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors-and born vaudevillians-Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's Weekend Edition. Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar..... is a not-so-reverent crash course through the... Read more