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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- By: John O'Donohue
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful....
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Must read
- By Anonymous User on 07-07-2024
By: John O'Donohue
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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Japanese aesthetics
- By Caroline Esbenshade on 11-05-2024
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Disobedient Bodies
- By: Emma Dabiri
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled....
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Depth of thought personal reflection and research
- By John Allldis on 08-05-2024
By: Emma Dabiri
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- By: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrated by: Max Bloomquist
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Crawford presents an articulated call for self-reliance....
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Brilliant!
- By Scott B on 16-01-2021
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The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration....
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- By: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Now, for the first time, listeners will be granted access to five decades of Robert M. Pirsig's personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree.
By: Robert M. Pirsig, and others
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- By: John O'Donohue
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful....
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Must read
- By Anonymous User on 07-07-2024
By: John O'Donohue
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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Japanese aesthetics
- By Caroline Esbenshade on 11-05-2024
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Disobedient Bodies
- By: Emma Dabiri
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
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What part of your beautiful self were you taught to hate? We spend a lot of time trying to improve our 'defects', according to society's ideals of beauty. But these ideals that are often reductive, tyrannical and commercially entangled....
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Depth of thought personal reflection and research
- By John Allldis on 08-05-2024
By: Emma Dabiri
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- By: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrated by: Max Bloomquist
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a "knowledge worker," based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Crawford presents an articulated call for self-reliance....
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Brilliant!
- By Scott B on 16-01-2021
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The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration....
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- By: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Now, for the first time, listeners will be granted access to five decades of Robert M. Pirsig's personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree.
By: Robert M. Pirsig, and others
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Ecce Homo
- How One Becomes What One Is
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Ecce homo, "behold the man", are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary self-portrait....
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Boring, pointless and self-serving. I like his work but this is nonsense
- By Luke J. Houghton on 31-12-2023
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Phaedrus
- By: Plato
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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The Phaedrus by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues....
By: Plato
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Prometheism
- By: Jason Reza Jorjani
- Narrated by: Daniel Natal
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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This is a declaration of war. In the name of our creator, we declare a revolutionary war against both the gods and those titans who were gods before them! In the name of our liberator, we declare a revolutionary war against fatalism and every other form of tyranny....
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- By: Wassily Kandinsky
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Featuring an enlightening introduction by the book's translator, Michael T. H. Sadler, providing generational and cultural context for Kandinsky and his work, Concerning the Spiritual in Art gives testimony to the mind and creative expression of Kandinsky and other artists of his generation....
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Chromophobia
- Focus on Contemporary Issues
- By: David Batchelor
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse—a fear of corruption or contamination through color—lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought.
By: David Batchelor
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- By: Richard Sennett
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words.
By: Richard Sennett
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The Aesthetic Brain
- How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
- By: Anjan Chatterjee
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art....
By: Anjan Chatterjee
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How to Wake Up
- A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow
- By: Toni Bernhard
- Narrated by: Deon Vozov
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow, describes the path to peace amid all of life's ups and downs....
By: Toni Bernhard
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- By: Edmund Burke
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics....
By: Edmund Burke
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
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There is a cause, or a reason, behind everything that happens. This is the fundamental view behind the classical proposition the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which, in 1813, Schopenhauer chose as his subject for further examination in his doctoral dissertation....
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Glamour
- A World Problem
- By: Alice A. Bailey, Alice Bailey
- Narrated by: Lucis Publishing Companies
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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The idea that a small group of dedicated aspirants could work together to help dissipate the heavy enshrouding glamours which oppress humanity and deflect the light of truth, was initially quite a startling one....
By: Alice A. Bailey, and others
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The Entanglement
- How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
- By: Alva Noe
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature....
By: Alva Noe
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Material: Making and the Art of Transformation
- By: Nick Kary
- Narrated by: Nick Kary
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Personal, engaging, and filled with memorable people, landscapes, and scenes, Material is a rich celebration of what it means to imagine and create, which in the end is the essence of being human and native to a place....
By: Nick Kary
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Humour
- By: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture - by one of its greatest exponents....
By: Terry Eagleton
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Theory of the Image
- By: Thomas Nail
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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We live in an age of the mobile image. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for the way we think about contemporary art and aesthetics but also for art history as well....
By: Thomas Nail
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The Art of Fiction
- By: Henry James, Walter Besant
- Narrated by: ChasMandala
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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Fiction is an Art in every way, worthy to be called the sister and the equal of the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Music, and Poetry; that is to say, her field is as boundless, her possibilities as vast, her excellences as worthy of admiration, as may be claimed for any of her sister Arts....
By: Henry James, and others
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Hatha Yoga
- By: Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson
- Narrated by: Andrew Morantz
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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This audiobook is devoted only to the first named, and we will not attempt to describe the others at this time, although we will have something to say upon all of these great branches of yoga, in future writings....
By: Yogi Ramacharaka, and others
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This Beauty
- A Philosophy of Being Alive
- By: Nick Riggle
- Narrated by: Nick Riggle
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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An acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living....
By: Nick Riggle
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The Power of Cute
- By: Simon May
- Narrated by: Anthony Head
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions....
By: Simon May
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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways....
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Incompletos
- Filosofía para un pensamiento elegante
- By: José Carlos Ruiz
- Narrated by: Pablo Martínez Gugel
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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La elegancia, en su etimología, está emparentada con la elección (eligĕre), de tal manera que una persona elegante, entre otras cosas, es aquella que sabe elegir...
By: José Carlos Ruiz
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Eleven Things That Art Is Not
- Debunking the Misconceptions to Reveal the True Value and Importance of Art
- By: Marcus Darc
- Narrated by: Marcus Darc
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Art is a distinct entity. It has its own characteristic, its own function, its own role to play in society. It must be afforded the status and identity it rightly deserves in a world that is becoming ever more needful of its existence....
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Succinct and plain language discussion about aesthetics and why much of "art" is not
- By Anonymous User on 01-07-2024
By: Marcus Darc
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Thought’s Wilderness
- Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature
- By: Greg Ellermann
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness insists that it is analytically and politically indispensable, and that romanticism shows us why....
By: Greg Ellermann
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The Birth of Tragedy
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: John van Stan
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the...