Aesthetics Philosophy

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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
    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Roger Scruton
    • Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 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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    • 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: 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 19 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 191 ratings
    • A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 39 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Catherine Belsey
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Education of a Craftsman
    • By: Peter Korn
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • In this moving account, Peter Korn explores the nature and rewards of creative practice....

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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: 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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    • 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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    • How One Becomes What One Is
    • By: Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Narrated by: Steven Van Doren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Ecce homo, "behold the man", are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary self-portrait....

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