Ignorance and Bliss
On Wanting Not to Know
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Mark Lilla
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A dazzling exploration of our wish to remain innocent and ignorant—and its consequences.
Aristotle claimed that "all human beings want to know." Our own experience proves that all human beings also want not to know. Today, centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerized crowds still follow preposterous prophets, irrational rumors trigger fanatical acts, and magical thinking crowds out common sense and expertise. Why is this? Where does this will to ignorance come from, and how does it continue to shape our lives?
In Ignorance and Bliss, the acclaimed essayist and historian of ideas Mark Lilla offers an absorbing psychological diagnosis of the human will not to know. With erudition and brio, Lilla ranges from the Book of Genesis and Plato's dialogues to Sufi parables and Sigmund Freud, revealing the paradoxes of hiding truth from ourselves. He also exposes the fantasies this impulse lead us to entertain—the illusion that the ecstasies of prophets, mystics, and holy fools offer access to esoteric truths; the illusion of children's lamb-like innocence; and the nostalgic illusion of recapturing the glories of vanished and allegedly purer civilizations. The result is a highly original meditation that invites listeners to consider their own deep-seated impulses and taboos.
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It used to be that ravaging another country’s economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, a former top State Department sanctions official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history of the last two decades of U.S. foreign policy, in which America renounced the gospel of globalization and waged a new kind of economic war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An economics textbook disguised as a thriller
- De Jesse Spevack en 03-26-25
De: Edward Fishman
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Open Socrates
- The Case for a Philosophical Life
- De: Agnes Callard
- Narrado por: Agnes Callard
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant and condescending. We parrot his claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” yet take no steps to live examined ones. In Open Socrates, acclaimed philosopher Agnes Callard recovers the radical move at the center of Socrates’ thought, and shows why it is still the way to a good life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An opposite of hell
- De Anonymous User en 04-17-25
De: Agnes Callard
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The Word of Dog
- What Our Canine Companions Can Teach Us About Living a Good Life
- De: Mark Rowlands
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 7 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
If you have spent any part of your life with a dog, you may have found certain questions popping, unbidden, into your mind: Is my dog living a fulfilled life? Is my dog a good dog? Does my dog love me? Addressing these questions compels you to confront not just your dog's life but yours as well—to think about what fulfillment, and meaning, in life really is. In The Word of Dog, philosopher Mark Rowlands explores these questions and suggests that in dogs we can see hints—faint, shrouded, but discernible—of what a better way of living might look like.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything
- De Nancy en 03-03-25
De: Mark Rowlands
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The Captive Mind
- De: Czeslaw Milosz, Jane Zielonko - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 163
The best-known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right. Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, this classic work reveals in fascinating detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every U.S. citizen should read this.
- De Tim Christenson en 09-27-20
De: Czeslaw Milosz, y otros
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Red Scare
- Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America
- De: Clay Risen
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
An urgent, accessible, and important history, Red Scare reveals an all-too-familiar pattern of illiberal conspiracy-mongering and political and cultural backlash that speaks directly to the antagonism and divisiveness of our contemporary moment. Drawing upon newly declassified documents, journalist Clay Risen recounts how politicians like Joseph McCarthy, with the help of an extended network of other government officials and organizations, systematically ruined thousands of lives in their deluded pursuit of alleged Communist conspiracies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointing narrator
- De DB en 04-19-25
De: Clay Risen
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Dominion
- How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
- De: Tom Holland
- Narrado por: Tom Holland, Mark Meadows
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,341
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,171
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,164
Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion - an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus - was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Only the forward is narrated by Holland.
- De Honora en 06-16-20
De: Tom Holland
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- De: Omar El Akkad
- Narrado por: Omar El Akkad
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 156
As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that it promised freedom. A place of justice for all. But in the past twenty years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie. That there will always be entire groups of human beings it has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding - Should be required reading
- De Steve Siegmund en 03-19-25
De: Omar El Akkad