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Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe. Kundera's discussion of his own work includes his views on the role of historical events in fiction, the meaning of action, and the creation of character in the postpsychological novel.
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Informative and Inspiring
- De Mo en 11-27-21
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Soul of the World
- De: Roger Scruton
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today’s fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive - and to understand what we are - is to acknowledge the reality of sacred things.
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"Against Reductionism"
- De Edmund Schilvold en 10-08-15
De: Roger Scruton
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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. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's not, as almost all contemporary art criticism and academic theory would have it, "socially constructed".
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A breath of fresh air!
- De Michael en 02-19-14
De: Denis Dutton
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Tom and Jack
- The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock
- De: Henry Adams
- Narrado por: Wayne Thompson
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only formal training came from Benton, and the older man soon became a surrogate father to Pollock.
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I suggest you READ, not listen...
- De Grace O'Malley en 07-01-16
De: Henry Adams
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Orientalism
- De: Edward Said
- Narrado por: Peter Ganim
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This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
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We're lucky to have this on audio
- De Delano en 02-27-13
De: Edward Said
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Secular Buddhism
- Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
- De: Stephen Batchelor
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little interest in the religious aspects of Buddhism, and the practice occurs within secular contexts such as hospitals, schools, and the workplace. Is it possible to recover from the Buddhist teachings a vision of human flourishing that is secular rather than religious without compromising the integrity of the tradition?
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Good, but repetition of old material
- De Ludwig en 02-25-18
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Dark Star Rising
- Magick and Power in the Age of Trump
- De: Gary Lachman
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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Within the concentric circles of Trump's regime lies an unseen culture of occultists, power-seekers, and mind-magicians whose influence is on the rise. In this unparalleled account, historian Gary Lachman examines the influence of occult and esoteric philosophy on the unexpected rise of the alt-right.
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Step Right This Way!
- De Brad en 06-03-18
De: Gary Lachman
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- De: Italo Calvino, Geoffrey Brock - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
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At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one "memo" each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
De: Italo Calvino, y otros
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Wagnerism
- Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
- De: Alex Ross
- Narrado por: Alex Ross
- Duración: 28 h y 25 m
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Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international best seller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.
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Not Just for Wagner Experts!
- De Rupert Pupkin en 09-26-20
De: Alex Ross