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2024-04-14 Shakespeare's Outsiders
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do Shakespearean dramas have more in common with modern-day soap operas than we think?

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
2416: Shakespeare's Outsiders, 4/16/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Do Shakespearean dramas have more in common with modern-day soap operas than we think?

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
2419: The Legacy of Freud, 5/7/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: :59
2024-01-07 Simone de Beauvoir
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of the French feminist philosopher (born January 9, 1908).

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2402: Simone de Beauvoir, 1/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The French feminist philosopher was born January 9, 1908.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-11-12 Your Brain on Literature
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2346: Your Brain on Literature, 11/14/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How do writers and filmmakers exploit our cognitive biases to surprise and delight us?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-09-03 (End of) Summer Reading List 2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people have been reading this summer?

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2336: (End of) Summer Reading List 2023, 9/5/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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What new books should thoughtful people read this summer?

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2022-11-13 In Search of Proust's Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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November 18 marks the centennial of the French writer's death.

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2022-10-23 Philosophy and the Superhero
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Holy metaphysics, Batman!

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
2022-07-31 James Baldwin and Social Justice
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The prolific writer and Civil Rights-era activist was born August 2, 1924.

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
Sarah Smarsh Explores Class in Rural America
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sarah Smarsh, Credit: Paul Andrews
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
2222: The Scandalous Truth About Memoir, 5/31/2022
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Why should anyone read—let alone write—a memoir?

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
2022-02-27 Is Postmodernism Really to Blame for Post-Truth?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Did postmodernism merely predict cynicism about the facts, or did it actually promote it?

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
2021-05-07 Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
210507: Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves, 5/7/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
A conversation with poet Sally Wen Mao
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sally Wen Mao, Credit: Sookoon Ang
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry excavates the burden of spectacle for Asian-Americans.

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 4
2020-06-21 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What exactly is existentialism? How are we condemned to be free? And what’s so hellish about other people?

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Susan Kuklin, author of "We Are Here To Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults"
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Susan Kuklin is an author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, well known for her photo essays for young children and her oral ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 21:08
Speeches From The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
From: WYSO
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The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize award ceremony was held on October 28, 2018 at the Schuster Center. In this special presentation of selection...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:45
Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people read this summer?

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Ideas Books: Will Atkinson, Class
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Will Atkinson
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:59