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Kant’s Critique of Judgement is the third and final part of his series of Critiques, which began with Critique of Pure Reason and continued with Critique of Practical Reason. Critique of Judgement was published in 1790 and is divided into two parts, the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement and the...

“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich”, writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” Nonconformity is about 20th-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society....

Was ist ein gutes Leben? Was macht den Menschen frei? Wie finden wir innere Ruhe – und welche Verantwortung tragen wir für unser eigenes Handeln? Seit Jahrtausenden beschäftigen diese Fragen die großen Denker der Menschheit. Diese umfangreiche Hörbuchsammlung vereint bedeutende Werke der...

An exploration of the good, the true, and the beautiful. And a few other things.

A thought-provoking introduction to modern philosophy—from the cohost of the popular Philosophy Bites podcast “Wonderfully sharp and human … an important book for bewildering times.” —Sarah Bakewell, bestselling author of At the Existentialist Café In ten chapters, Street Philosophy...

A vigorous call to restore imagination, judgment, and intellectual courage to American culture. In this essay from Civilization in the United States, J. E. Spingarn challenges universities and critics to recover the purpose behind their learning. He questions scholarship reduced to collecting...

تخلص من ضجيج الحياة المعاصرة واستعد هدوءك الداخلي عبر مبادئ التأمل والحضور الذهني المستمدة من الحكمة الشرقية. سواء كنت تستمع أثناء تنقلك المزدحم أو تبحث عن مساحة...

当现代生活的极速运转让你深陷焦虑与内耗时，汲取东方哲学的正念智慧，正是你重建内心秩序的破局之法。这套历经千年的心智修炼工具，将高深的思想转化为应对高压日常的实用指南，让你在喧嚣中迅速找回专注与清明。...

絶え間ない情報と終わりのない不安に疲弊する日々の中で、禅とわびさびの哲学は、完璧主義を手放し、揺るがない心の平穏を取り戻すための最強の自己啓発ツールとなります。満員電車に揺られる通勤時や就寝前の静か...

血塗られた凄惨な戦闘技術が、いかにして息を呑むほど美しい身体芸術へと昇華されたのか、歴史の深淵と心身の調和を紐解く知的な探求へご案内します。静かな夜のリラックスタイムや一人で過ごす移動中に、この深く...

Comprenez l'essence du mouvement avec cette philosophie martiale où la violence du combat devient pure esthétique. Que vous soyez en plein trajet quotidien ou en phase de concentration avant l'effort, cette écoute immersive redéfinit votre vision de la maîtrise corporelle. Laissez-vous...

An argument for taking a stolen title back. In 1595, in the Italian city of Padua, a medical student climbed a dark staircase and came out standing at a wooden rail, inside a funnel of carved walnut six galleries deep, every eye aimed at one lit table. The Greek word for a theater means the seeing-place, and the men at that rail knew what kind of room they were in. The anatomists knew too. They had built a theater on purpose. For most of Western history, art meant a principled, teachable discipline of making and doing, judged by its work.

日本民族に独自の美意識をあらわす語「いき（粋）」とは何か．「運命によって〈諦め〉を得た〈媚態〉が〈意気地〉の自由に生きるのが〈いき〉である」――九鬼は「いき」の現象をその構造と表現から明快に把えてみせたあと，こう結論する．

An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts When Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and...

Neste volume, Rodrigo Duarte parte do ambiente em que vivemos para refletir sobre a vivência da arte. Busca, então, elementos de reflexão no pensamento de autores como Platão, Aristóteles, Santo Agostinho, Santo Tomás, Kant, Hegel, Adorno e Arthur Danto, entre outros...

Virginia Heffernan “melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet is—and can be. A thoroughly engrossing examination of the Internet’s past, present, and future” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from one of the best living...

The Architecture of Happiness is a dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds...

The Light That Forms develops a philosophical account of form, meaning, and perception grounded in the claim that intelligibility is intrinsic to reality rather than imposed by mind or language. Beginning with observable phenomena—vibration, resonance, geometry, light, and color—the book proceeds by demonstration rather than abstraction, allowing ontological claims to emerge only where explanation becomes unavoidable.

Part ode to building something with one’s hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure. Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings...

A Sounds True Audio Original: Intimate, life-changing programs with the leading voices in spirituality, personal growth, and healing. “The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in...