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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: 30-04-24
- Language: English
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Humour
- By: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humor and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humor subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit?
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Humour
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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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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Great!
- By Ben N. on 04-05-21
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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
- Narrated by: Brian Richy
- Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-06-20
- 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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A bit washy.
- By Anonymous User on 29-01-19
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The Architecture of Happiness
- Narrated by: Alain de Botton
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-04-06
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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American accent!
- By Moon on 06-02-19
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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: 03-08-09
- 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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Book should be called “How Porn can make Sense of Art to People who like Sex”
- By L on 03-03-24
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Beauty
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- 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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A Gem
- By Anonymous User on 04-04-24
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Poststructuralism
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-05-21
- 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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Difficult and Challenging Book. Very well read.
- By Stephen John Roberts on 21-08-19
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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: 07-11-13
- Language: English
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See What You're Missing
- 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too
- By: Will Gompertz
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Artists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his typical engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists - from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world - to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.
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Illuminating
- By Stitch This on 28-12-23
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See What You're Missing
- 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 09-03-23
- 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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Captivated.
- By Jennie on 23-01-17
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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: 13-02-15
- 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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love this
- By Stephen Lee Nott on 15-06-21
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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: 16-10-18
- 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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outdated, racist and sexist views and comments.
- By Dylan E. on 26-11-18
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In Praise of Shadows
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 22-09-17
- 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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Will read this again and again
- By Gabrielle Tierney on 06-10-23
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Disobedient Bodies
- Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-10-23
- 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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Thoughtful book
- By Natalya on 31-03-20
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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: 20-06-19
- Language: English
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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. This seminal and thought-provoking book exploring the heart of the artistic endeavor belongs in the library of every serious artist and student of modern art.
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Tale of a different time
- By Ollie on 26-12-23
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- Narrated by: David Pickering
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-11-23
- Language: English
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Authenticity
- How Economics, Evolution and Technology Drive Us to Deceive—and How We Can Fight Back
- By: Alice Sherwood
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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We live in an age when the pursuit of authenticity—from living our 'best life' to eating artisan food—matters more and more to us, but where the forces of inauthenticity seem to be taking over. Our world is full of people and products that are not what they seem. We no longer know whether we are talking to a person or a machine. But we can fight back—and this award-winning book shows us how. Authenticity argues that although our counterfeit culture is shaped by the most powerful forces of evolution, economics and technology, we can still come together to reclaim reality.
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Authenticity
- How Economics, Evolution and Technology Drive Us to Deceive—and How We Can Fight Back
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 12-05-22
- Language: English
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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. Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us resources to live differently. Our lives are permeated with the aesthetic. Indeed, human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon, and art is the truest way of understanding ourselves. All this suggests that human nature is not a natural phenomenon.
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The Entanglement
- How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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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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More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous, Robert M. Pirsig had already caught hold of the central theme that would animate Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: “Quality,” a concept loosely likened to “excellence,” “rightness,” or “fitness” that Pirsig saw as kindred to the Buddhist ideas of “dharma” or the “Tao.” As he later wrote in Zen, “Quality is the Buddha.”
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Wanting to fall asleep?
- By Simons on 26-07-23
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 26-04-22
- 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: 29-09-20
- Language: English
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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. His definition of beauty as rooted in pleasure and sexuality, and the sublime in pain and survival, aligned him with the empiricists John Locke and David Hume, as he replaced the metaphysics of Plato's aesthetics with a psychological and physiological perspective.
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For a philosophy book, unusually easy to follow in audio form :)
- By Patrick Trompiz on 27-01-24
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-04-20
- Language: English
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