Bestsellers
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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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How to listen
- By Anonymous User on 03-25-18
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- By Anonymous User on 01-07-20
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely....
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Introduction to Beauty
- By Anonymous User on 05-03-19
By: Roger Scruton
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Catherine Belsey
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....
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Brilliantly done, excellent narration
- By Anonymous User on 11-26-24
By: Catherine Belsey
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Aesthetics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Bence Nanay
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Bence Nanay introduces the field of aesthetics, considering both Western and non-Western aesthetic traditions and exploring why it is sometimes misunderstood or considered to be too elitist - by artists, musicians, and even philosophers....
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Critique of 'Western' Aesthetics - A Virtue Signal
- By Anonymous User on 10-05-21
By: Bence Nanay
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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....
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Ought to be read more
- By Easy Rhino on 06-19-21
By: Edmund Burke
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In Praise of Shadows
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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How to listen
- By Anonymous User on 03-25-18
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- By Anonymous User on 01-07-20
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely....
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Introduction to Beauty
- By Anonymous User on 05-03-19
By: Roger Scruton
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Catherine Belsey
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....
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Brilliantly done, excellent narration
- By Anonymous User on 11-26-24
By: Catherine Belsey
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Aesthetics
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Bence Nanay
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Bence Nanay introduces the field of aesthetics, considering both Western and non-Western aesthetic traditions and exploring why it is sometimes misunderstood or considered to be too elitist - by artists, musicians, and even philosophers....
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Critique of 'Western' Aesthetics - A Virtue Signal
- By Anonymous User on 10-05-21
By: Bence Nanay
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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....
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Ought to be read more
- By Easy Rhino on 06-19-21
By: Edmund Burke
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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.
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- By Tom on 05-03-22
By: Robert M. Pirsig, and others
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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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The Birth of Tragedy Out of 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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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- By JCW on 02-05-18
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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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I’ve enjoyed this program
- By M.Biblioswine on 04-23-20
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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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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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Bombastic, Fantastic?
- By w22w on 01-24-10
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Better Living Through Criticism
- How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
- By: A. O. Scott
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever....
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This is what hell sounds like
- By Anonymous User on 09-09-21
By: A. O. Scott
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The Discipline of Inspiration
- The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity
- By: Carey Wallace
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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Learn where inspiration comes from and how to harness it in your life and work. Carey Wallace meditates on this vital spark and on the ways artists have negotiated with it across genres and throughout history.
By: Carey Wallace
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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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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...
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Why the bad accent?
- By Anonymous User on 07-12-24
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The Art of Literature
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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Arthur Schopenhauer's The Art of Literature is a lively, illuminating and brutally honest collection of essays on literary style and values, writers and critics, and the nature of genius....
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El elogio de la sombra [In Praise of Shadows]
- By: Junichirô Tanizaki
- Narrated by: Masumi Mutsuda
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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A través de la contemplación silenciosa del mundo que lo rodea, Tanizaki desvela el misterio de la sombra, que no es otro que la esencia misma de la belleza, con un estilo sencillo y ameno pero asombrosamente equilibrado, sereno y sutil....
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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 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....
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Pretty nice analysis of cute!
- By Peachy on 04-20-19
By: Simon May
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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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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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Jorjani is one of the most innovative and ambitious minds of our era.
- By Anonymous User on 08-14-24
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Home Matters
- How Our Homes Shape Us, and We Shape Them
- By: Penny Wincer
- Narrated by: Penny Wincer
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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As an interiors photographer, Penny Wincer found that walking through a stranger’s home, listening to them explaining the history of the space, and the meaning of precious objects, was one of most joyful aspects of her work.
By: Penny Wincer
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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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Ecce Homo
- By: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ellis Freeman
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Ecce Homo, subtitled How One Becomes What One Is, is the final original book written by Friedrich Nietzsche before he succumbed to the insanity which lasted until his death in 1900....
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Mirror, Mirror
- The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
- By: Simon Blackburn
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior....
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A very maturation book
- By John A. on 01-27-22
By: Simon Blackburn
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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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What Is Art?
- By: Leo Tolstoy
- Narrated by: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion....
By: Leo Tolstoy
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Doorway to Artistry
- Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity
- By: Esther Lightcap Meek
- Narrated by: Esther Lightcap Meek
- Length: 12 hrs
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Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being.
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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