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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations
4.3
13 min
Stanley Milgram
Obedience to Authority
4.2
11 min
Edward W. Said
Orientalism
4.1
7 min
Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
4.1
9 min
Benedict Anderson
Imagined Communities
4.1
13 min
Michel Foucault
The Order of Things
4.1
14 min
Max Horkheimer
Dialectic of Enlightenment
4.1
12 min
Pierre Bourdieu
Distinction
4.2
23 min
Thomas S. Kuhn
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
4
10 min
Jean Baudrillard
Simulacra and Simulation
4
16 min
John Rawls
A Theory of Justice
4
8 min
Antonio Damasio
Descartes’ Error
4
11 min
Karl Popper
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
4
16 min
David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
3.9
16 min
John Locke
Second Treatise of the Government
3.8
12 min
Victor Cheng
Case Interview Secrets
4.1
9 min
Slavoj Žižek
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
3.8
17 min
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
3.7
15 min
Simon Blackburn
Think
3.7
18 min
Lee G. Bolman
Reframing Organizations
3.9
12 min
Julie Dirksen
Design for How People Learn
4.3
15 min
Thomas Nagel
What Does It All Mean?
3.6
15 min
Mary Douglas
Purity and Danger
4
12 min
Kenneth N. Waltz
Man, the State and War
4
11 min
Elena Aguilar
Onward
4.3
13 min
Soren Kierkegaard
Either/Or
4.3
15 min
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Soft Power
3.8
11 min
Wallace V. Friesen
Unmasking the Face
4
17 min
Michael Axworthy
Revolutionary Iran
4.1
18 min
Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Managed Heart
4
10 min