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    • Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
    • By: John O'Donohue
    • Narrated by: John O'Donohue
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-15
    • Language: English
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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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    • An Inquiry into the Value of Work
    • By: Matthew B. Crawford
    • Narrated by: Max Bloomquist
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 487 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Junichiro Tanizaki
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 265 ratings
    • In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object 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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    • How One Becomes What One Is
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • Ecce homo, "behold the man", are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary self-portrait....

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    • By: Leonard Koren
    • Narrated by: Brian Richy
    • Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bence Nanay
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Bence Nanay introduces the field of aesthetics, considering both Western and non-Western aesthetic traditions and exploring why it is sometimes misunderstood or considered to be too elitist - by artists, musicians, and even philosophers....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Catherine Belsey
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. This Very Short Introduction traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture....

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    • The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
    • By: Zena Hitz
    • Narrated by: Emily Ellet
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought....

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    • A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
    • By: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
    • Narrated by: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Now, for the first time, listeners will be granted access to five decades of Robert M. Pirsig's personal writings in this posthumous collection that illuminates the evolution of his thinking to an unprecedented degree.

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    • By: Jason Reza Jorjani
    • Narrated by: Daniel Natal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Alain de Botton
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 450 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Wassily Kandinsky
    • Narrated by: David Pickering
    • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-23
    • Language: English
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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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    • How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
    • By: A. O. Scott
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever....

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    • How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
    • By: Anjan Chatterjee
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art....

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    • By: Arthur Schopenhauer
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-18
    • Language: English
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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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    • Learn How to Get Rid of Things and Be Less Cluttered in a Step by Step Guide on Becoming an Expert Minimalist
    • By: Gregory Alan Thornhill
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • How to Design a Minimalist Home is a step-by-step guide to creating a minimalist living space. It covers a range of topics such as identifying what...

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    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: John van Stan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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