Bestsellers
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In Praise of Shadows
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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- De Anonymous User en 03-25-18
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Max Bloomquist
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- De Amazon Customer en 01-07-20
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- De: John O'Donohue
- Narrado por: John O'Donohue
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful....
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Stunning book
- De Kelly en 06-19-17
De: John O'Donohue
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Dressed
- A Philosophy of Clothes
- De: Shahidha Bari
- Narrado por: Shahidha Bari
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world....
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This isn't about fashion.
- De barrett wissell en 01-18-23
De: Shahidha Bari
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
- De: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present....
De: J.F. Martel, y otros
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- De: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
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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....
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- De Tom en 05-03-22
De: Robert M. Pirsig, y otros
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In Praise of Shadows
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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How to listen
- De Anonymous User en 03-25-18
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Max Bloomquist
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- De Amazon Customer en 01-07-20
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- De: John O'Donohue
- Narrado por: John O'Donohue
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful....
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Stunning book
- De Kelly en 06-19-17
De: John O'Donohue
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Dressed
- A Philosophy of Clothes
- De: Shahidha Bari
- Narrado por: Shahidha Bari
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world....
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This isn't about fashion.
- De barrett wissell en 01-18-23
De: Shahidha Bari
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
- De: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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Part treatise, part critique, part call to action, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice is a journey into the uncanny realities revealed to us in the great works of art of the past and present....
De: J.F. Martel, y otros
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- De: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
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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....
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- De Tom en 05-03-22
De: Robert M. Pirsig, y otros
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Duncan Steen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration....
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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- De JCW en 02-05-18
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Prometheism
- De: Jason Reza Jorjani
- Narrado por: Daniel Natal
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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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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Spectral, and proud of it.
- De Tomi C Owens en 05-31-24
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Ecce Homo
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Ellis Freeman
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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Ecce Homo, subtitled How One Becomes What One Is, is the final original book written by Friedrich Nietzsche before he succumbed to the insanity which lasted until his death in 1900....
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Authority and Freedom
- A Defense of the Arts
- De: Jed Perl
- Narrado por: Daniel Oreskes
- Duración: 3 h y 16 m
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From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts - musical, literary, and visual - and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us....
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Excellent book and excellent narration.
- De jeremy long en 03-18-23
De: Jed Perl
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- De: Wassily Kandinsky
- Narrado por: David Pickering
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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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....
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Survival of the Beautiful
- Art, Science, and Evolution
- De: David Rothenberg
- Narrado por: Kris Koscheski
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution....
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Not as interesting as I hoped
- De Rachel en 03-31-15
De: David Rothenberg
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El elogio de la sombra
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: Victor Clavijo
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
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Un ensayo breve y al mismo tiempo revelador sobre el pensamiento estético en el arte japonés. En él, Tanizaki Junichiro reflexiona sobre el amor por el detalle, el minimalismo...
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Refreshing!
- De Ricardo Ernst en 05-29-24
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The Birth of Tragedy
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: John van Stan
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the...
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Phaedrus
- De: Plato
- Narrado por: Andrea Giordani
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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The Phaedrus by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues....
De: Plato
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The Art of Literature
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 3 h y 49 m
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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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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
- Narrado por: Rachael Beresford
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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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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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- De: Edmund Burke
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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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....
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Ought to be read more
- De Easy Rhino en 06-19-21
De: Edmund Burke
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The Aesthetic Brain
- How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
- De: Anjan Chatterjee
- Narrado por: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art....
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Disappointing
- De Clara en 12-22-15
De: Anjan Chatterjee
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Chromophobia
- FOCI
- De: David Batchelor
- Narrado por: Peter Coates
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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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....
De: David Batchelor
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This Beauty
- A Philosophy of Being Alive
- De: Nick Riggle
- Narrado por: Nick Riggle
- Duración: 4 h y 27 m
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An acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living....
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Very hard for me to follow the book
- De PRATEEK JAIN en 04-28-23
De: Nick Riggle
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Nonconformity
- Writing on Writing
- De: Nelson Algren
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
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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....
De: Nelson Algren
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The Entanglement
- How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
- De: Alva Noe
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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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....
De: Alva Noe
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Poetics/Rhetoric
- De: Aristotle
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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The Art of Rhetoric, a guide on the principles behind oratorical skill, is a core text on the art of persuasion. Aristotle contends that rhetoric is one of the key elements of philosophy – along with logic and dialectic....
De: Aristotle
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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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....
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I’ve enjoyed this program
- De Phil F. en 04-23-20
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The Art Instinct
- Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
- De: Denis Dutton
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived....
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A breath of fresh air!
- De Michael en 02-19-14
De: Denis Dutton
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Disobedient Bodies
- De: Emma Dabiri
- Narrado por: Emma Dabiri
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
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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....
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Great topic, got lost in the weeds
- De aslan en 02-10-24
De: Emma Dabiri
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Glamour
- A World Problem
- De: Alice A. Bailey, Alice Bailey
- Narrado por: Lucis Publishing Companies
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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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....
De: Alice A. Bailey, y otros
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How to Build a Boat
- A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
- De: Jonathan Gornall
- Narrado por: Jonathan Gornall
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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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....
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The beautiful writing.
- De Anonymous User en 02-21-24
De: Jonathan Gornall
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How to Wake Up
- A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow
- De: Toni Bernhard
- Narrado por: Deon Vozov
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow, describes the path to peace amid all of life's ups and downs....
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Excellent
- De Michelle en 09-16-13
De: Toni Bernhard