Kevin S. Decker and William Irwin (editors) - Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad’Dib

By Dune and Philosophy: Minds, Monads, and Muad’Dib•Read by Ariana Delawari and Nas Mehdi•24 tracks• 10 hrs and 44 mins Publisher: Tantor Audio Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

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24 parts

#	Title	Duration
1	00. Introduction - ”He Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe”	8:15
2	01. Liberating Women’s Bodies - Feminist Philosophy and the Bene Gesserit of Dune	34:27
3	02. What Do Zendaya’s Blue Eyes Really Mean	25:40
4	03. The Golden Path and Multicultural Meanings of Life	29:15
5	04. Messiahs, Jihads, and God Emperors - Should Humanity Just Give Up Religion	32:57
6	05. (Re)defining Masculinity and Femininity in Villeneuve’s Dune	24:23
7	06. Spiritual Realm Adaptation - Arrakeen Spice, Terrestrial Psychedelics, and Technique	30:20
8	07. Thinking Like a Desert - Environmental Philosophy and Dune	26:28
9	08. Humans, Machines, and an Ethics for Technology in Dune	23:45
10	09. ”Thou Shalt Make a Human Mind in the Likeness of a Machine” - Imitation, Thinking Machines, and Mentats	29:50
11	10. Herbert’s Gholas - Mystical Legends and Scientific Inspiration	29:35
12	11. Psychological Expanses of Dune - Indigenous Philosophy, Americana, and Existentialism	28:50
13	12. Thatched Cottages at Cordeville - Hegel, Heidegger, and the Death of Art in Dune	32:11
14	13. Should the Bene Gesserit Be in Charge	32:51
15	14. Prisoners of Prophecy - Freedom and Foreknowledge in the Dune Series	24:13
16	15. Time versus History - A Conflict Central to Herbert’s Dune	24:23
17	16. Secher Nbiw and the Child’s Right to an Open Future	24:46
18	17. The Spice of Life - Hedonism and Nozick in the Dune Universe	18:11
19	18. ”Less Than a God, More Than a Man” - Is It Morally Wrong to Make a Kwisatz Haderach	27:09
20	19. That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Shai-Hulud - Self-overcoming in Nietzsche, Hinduism, and Dune	25:29
21	20. The God Emperor and the Tyrant - The Political Theology of Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga	28:42
22	21. Lessons from Islamic Philosophy on the Politics of Paul Atreides	28:57
23	22. Why Settle for Hobbes’s Sovereign When You Could Have a God Emperor	25:34
24	23. The Mind at War - Conflict and Cognition in Frank Herbert’s Dune	29:20