Aesthetics Philosophy

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-19
    • Language: English
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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 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 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
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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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Bence Nanay
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 26-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Thomas Nail
    • Narrated by: Doug McDonald
    • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-20
    • Language: English
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    • We live in an age of the mobile image. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has enormous consequences not only for the way we think about contemporary art and aesthetics but also for art history as well....

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    • By: Leonard Koren
    • Narrated by: Brian Richy
    • Length: 1 hr and 37 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-20
    • Language: English
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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....

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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: 26-04-22
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
    • By: Beth Kempton
    • Narrated by: Beth Kempton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom....

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    • Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
    • By: Sianne Ngai
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywhere in capitalism. It comes in many guises: a musical hook, a financial strategy, a striptease, a novel of ideas....

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    • By: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Malk Williams, Stephane Cornicard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion....

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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: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
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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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    • 31 Ways Artists Notice the World – and How You Can Too
    • By: Will Gompertz
    • Narrated by: Matt Addis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • By: Junichiro Tanizaki
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 22-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....

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    • By: Jason Reza Jorjani
    • Narrated by: Daniel Natal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
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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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    • 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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    • Art, Life, Politics
    • By: Richard Sennett
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A World Problem
    • By: Alice A. Bailey, Alice Bailey
    • Narrated by: Lucis Publishing Companies
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 21-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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....

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    • By: Arthur Schopenhauer
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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