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  • Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers cover art

    • Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

    • By: Leonard Koren
    • Narrated by: Brian Richy
    • Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Nearly every book with "wabi" or "wabi sabi" in the title is based on the concepts first elucidated in this book....

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    • Disobedient Bodies

    • By: Emma Dabiri
    • Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • 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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  • In Praise of Shadows cover art

    • In Praise of Shadows

    • By: Junichiro Tanizaki
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....

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  • The Art of Literature cover art

    • The Art of Literature

    • By: Arthur Schopenhauer
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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  • The Aesthetic Brain cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 03-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art....

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  • Prometheism cover art

    • Prometheism

    • By: Jason Reza Jorjani
    • Narrated by: Daniel Natal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • 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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  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful cover art

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  • The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music cover art

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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
    • Release date: 26-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • 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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    • Humour

    • By: Terry Eagleton
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture - by one of its greatest exponents....

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  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art cover art

    • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    • By: Wassily Kandinsky
    • Narrated by: David Pickering
    • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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 Performer

    • Art, Life, Politics
    • By: Richard Sennett
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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.

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  • Shop Class as Soulcraft cover art

    • 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
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings

    • 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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  • Thought’s Wilderness cover art

    • Thought’s Wilderness

    • Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature
    • By: Greg Ellermann
    • Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-23
    • Language: English
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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....

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  • The Art of Fiction cover art

    • The Art of Fiction

    • By: Henry James, Walter Besant
    • Narrated by: ChasMandala
    • Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • 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....

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  • Material: Making and the Art of Transformation cover art

    • Material: Making and the Art of Transformation

    • By: Nick Kary
    • Narrated by: Nick Kary
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • 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....

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  • On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason cover art

    • On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

    • By: Arthur Schopenhauer
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • Aesthetics

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bence Nanay
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 26-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • 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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    • Imagination

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
    • Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-23
    • Language: English
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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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    • Poststructuralism

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Catherine Belsey
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

    • 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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