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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
- By: Leonard Koren
- Narrated by: Brian Richy
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
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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. Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional....
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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
- Narrated by: Brian Richy
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2020
- Language: English
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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 - either in art, in nature, or the human form - 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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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2019
- Language: English
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Catherine Belsey
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture.
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-05-2021
- Language: English
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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. As Nanay shows, so-called "high art" has no more claims on aesthetics than sitcoms, tattoos, or punk rock.
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Gets better later in the book
- By Kindle Customer on 13-06-2023
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Aesthetics
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-05-2020
- Language: English
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Strange Tools
- Art and Human Nature
- By: Alva Noë
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
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Strange Tools
- Art and Human Nature
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 22-12-2015
- Language: English
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Lost in Thought
- The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
- By: Zena Hitz
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought. Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us.
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Lost in Thought
- The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2020
- Language: English
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Theory of the Gimmick
- Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
- By: Sianne Ngai
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention).
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Theory of the Gimmick
- Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-09-2021
- Language: English
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Wabi Sabi
- Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
- By: Beth Kempton
- Narrated by: Beth Kempton
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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Wabi sabi (wah-bi sah-bi) is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection, appreciate simplicity and accept the transient nature of all things. With roots in Zen and the way of tea, the timeless wisdom of wabi sabi is more relevant than ever for modern life, as we search for new ways to approach life's challenges and seek meaning beyond materialism.
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Accessible and inspiring reading
- By Nerrise on 28-12-2022
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Wabi Sabi
- Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
- Narrated by: Beth Kempton
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2019
- Language: English
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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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The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. When we experience the Beautiful, there is a wonderful sense of homecoming; we feel fully alive. Our lives become illuminated, and behind the shudder of appearances we come to glimpse the sure form of things. On Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful.
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True beauty… medicine for the heart and soul
- By Jasmine on 22-01-2024
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- Narrated by: John O'Donohue
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-02-2015
- Language: English
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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. Through architecture, ceramics, theatre, food, women, and even toilets, Tanizaki explains the essence of shadows and darkness, and how they are able to augment beauty. He laments the heavy electric lighting of the West and its introduction to Japan, and shows how the artificial, bright, and polished aesthetic of the West contrasts unfavorably with the moody and natural light of the East.
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Japanese aesthetics
- By Caroline Esbenshade on 11-05-2024
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In Praise of Shadows
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 22-09-2017
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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In his extraordinary new book, Alain de Botton explores the importance of buildings in our lives, pondering our attachment to our homes and considering such questions as: Why do people disagree about taste? Can beautiful surroundings make us good?
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Alain never disappoints
- By Anonymous User on 26-12-2023
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The Architecture of Happiness
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2006
- Language: English
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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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Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" by The Boston Globe, Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant best seller, attracting fans with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. 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.
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Brilliant!
- By Scott B on 16-01-2021
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- Narrated by: Max Bloomquist
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 16-10-2018
- Language: English
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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. A main purpose of the book was to offer Nietzsche's own perspective on his work as a philosopher and human being. Ecce Homo also forcefully repudiates those interpretations of his previous works purporting to find support there for imperialism, anti-Semitism, militarism, and Social Darwinism.
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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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Ecce Homo
- How One Becomes What One Is
- Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-08-2009
- Language: English
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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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The book draws on history and sociology, and more personally on the author's early career as a professional cellist, as well as on his later work as a city planner and social thinker. It traces the evolution of performing spaces in the city; the emergence of actors, musicians, and dancers as independent artists; the inequality between performer and spectator; the uneasy relations between artistic creation and social and religious ritual; the uses and abuses of acting by politicians. The Janus-faced art of performing is both destructive and civilizing.
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2024
- Language: English
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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. Spiritual progress has for so long held no meaning for the individual other than his own personal growth, that to consider spiritual experience in direct relation to world conditions is for many a revolutionary idea.
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Glamour
- A World Problem
- Narrated by: Lucis Publishing Companies
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 21-12-2023
- Language: English
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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. It is here that the philosopher expresses his frustration with the contemporary world and urges man to embrace Dionysian energy once more. He refutes European culture since the time of Socrates, arguing that it is one-sidedly Apollonian and prevents man from living in optimistic harmony with the sufferings of life.
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The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music
- Narrated by: Duncan Steen
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2013
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be - and argues that it is architecture’s task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.
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My favourite book of all time
- By WhiteDesertRose on 11-02-2024
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The Architecture of Happiness
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 29-03-2013
- Language: English
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Chromophobia
- FOCI
- 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. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some "foreign body"–the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological–or by relegating it to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential, or the cosmetic.
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Chromophobia
- FOCI
- Narrated by: Peter Coates
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 18-07-2023
- Language: English
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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, imposed upon us by oppressive systems and further strengthened by our conditioned self-loathing. This book encourages unruliness, exploring the ways in which we can rebel against and subvert the current system.
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Depth of thought personal reflection and research
- By John Allldis on 08-05-2024
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Disobedient Bodies
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2023
- Language: English
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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 On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason....
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-11-2018
- Language: English
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