Showing results by publisher "Blackstone Publishing" in Aesthetics
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Nonconformity
- Writing on Writing
- By: Nelson Algren
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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“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....
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Nonconformity
- Writing on Writing
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2019
- Language: English
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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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Philosopher Nick Riggle explores the beauty of being alive by investigating the things we say to inspire ourselves and each other: seize the day, treat yourself, you only live once. These clichés are at best vague, at worst stupid. They imply that you should do something wild with your life because your life is precious, a little like saying you should go swimming with your grandfather’s watch because it is irreplaceable.
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This Beauty
- A Philosophy of Being Alive
- Narrated by: Nick Riggle
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-12-2022
- Language: English
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