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  • On Quality cover art

    • 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    • An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings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
    • Release date: 26-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers

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

    • By: Emma Dabiri
    • Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
    • Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

    • 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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  • The Art of Literature cover art

    • The Art of Literature

    • By: Arthur Schopenhauer
    • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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    • Prometheism

    • By: Jason Reza Jorjani
    • Narrated by: Daniel Natal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • In Praise of Shadows

    • By: Junichiro Tanizaki
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....

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  • The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music cover art

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  • A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful cover art

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  • Material: Making and the Art of Transformation cover art

    • Material: Making and the Art of Transformation

    • By: Nick Kary
    • Narrated by: Nick Kary
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Personal, engaging, and filled with memorable people, landscapes, and scenes, Material is a rich celebration of what it means to imagine and create, which in the end is the essence of being human and native to a place....

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    • The Performer

    • Art, Life, Politics
    • By: Richard Sennett
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In The Performer, Richard Sennett explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics, and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical dimensions of performing, rather than on words.

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    • The Art of Fiction

    • By: Henry James, Walter Besant
    • Narrated by: ChasMandala
    • Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Fiction is an Art in every way, worthy to be called the sister and the equal of the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Music, and Poetry; that is to say, her field is as boundless, her possibilities as vast, her excellences as worthy of admiration, as may be claimed for any of her sister Arts....

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    • Aesthetics

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bence Nanay
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 26-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 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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    • Phaedrus

    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
    • Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 28-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The Phaedrus by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues....

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    • How to Wake Up

    • A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow
    • By: Toni Bernhard
    • Narrated by: Deon Vozov
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • Hatha Yoga

    • By: Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson
    • Narrated by: Andrew Morantz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 17-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook is devoted only to the first named, and we will not attempt to describe the others at this time, although we will have something to say upon all of these great branches of yoga, in future writings....

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    • The Aesthetic Brain

    • 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: 03-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Aesthetic Brain takes the listener on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art....

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    • High Heel

    • By: Summer Brennan
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Meditating on the labyrinthine nature of sexual identity and the performance of gender, High Heel moves from film to fairytale, from foot binding to feminism, and from the golden ratio to glam rock....

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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
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 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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    • Humour

    • By: Terry Eagleton
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture - by one of its greatest exponents....

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  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art cover art

    • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    • By: Wassily Kandinsky
    • Narrated by: David Pickering
    • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • 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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