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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Max Bloomquist
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- De Amazon Customer en 01-07-20
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- De: John O'Donohue
- Narrado por: John O'Donohue
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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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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Stunning book
- De Kelly en 06-19-17
De: John O'Donohue
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In Praise of Shadows
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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How to listen
- De Anonymous User en 03-25-18
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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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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I’ve enjoyed this program
- De Phil F. en 04-23-20
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Duncan Steen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration....
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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- De JCW en 02-05-18
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The Birth of Tragedy
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: John van Stan
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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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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Shop Class as Soulcraft
- An Inquiry into the Value of Work
- De: Matthew B. Crawford
- Narrado por: Max Bloomquist
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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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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Hands and brain: a matching set
- De Amazon Customer en 01-07-20
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
- Rediscovering the True Sources of Compassion, Serenity, and Hope
- De: John O'Donohue
- Narrado por: John O'Donohue
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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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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Stunning book
- De Kelly en 06-19-17
De: John O'Donohue
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In Praise of Shadows
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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In Praise of Shadows is an eloquent tribute to the austere beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics....
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How to listen
- De Anonymous User en 03-25-18
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On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- De: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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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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I’ve enjoyed this program
- De Phil F. en 04-23-20
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The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Duncan Steen
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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One of Nietzsche’s earliest works, The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a remarkable source of inspiration....
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The Apollonian vs The Dionysian
- De JCW en 02-05-18
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The Birth of Tragedy
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: John van Stan
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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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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The Aesthetic Brain
- How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
- De: Anjan Chatterjee
- Narrado por: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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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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Disappointing
- De Clara en 12-22-15
De: Anjan Chatterjee
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On Quality
- An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
- De: Robert M. Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Abby Craden
- Duración: 2 h y 58 m
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More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous, Robert M. Pirsig had already caught hold of the central theme that would animate Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance....
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Interesting trip inside an obsessed mind.
- De Tom en 05-03-22
De: Robert M. Pirsig, y otros
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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
- Narrado por: Rachael Beresford
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways....
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Glamour
- A World Problem
- De: Alice A. Bailey, Alice Bailey
- Narrado por: Lucis Publishing Companies
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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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....
De: Alice A. Bailey, y otros
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- De: Wassily Kandinsky
- Narrado por: David Pickering
- Duración: 2 h y 43 m
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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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The Entanglement
- How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
- De: Alva Noe
- Narrado por: Christopher Douyard
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature....
De: Alva Noe
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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....
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A breath of fresh air!
- De Michael en 02-19-14
De: Denis Dutton
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How to Wake Up
- A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow
- De: Toni Bernhard
- Narrado por: Deon Vozov
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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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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Excellent
- De Michelle en 09-16-13
De: Toni Bernhard
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Ecce Homo
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Ellis Freeman
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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Ecce Homo, subtitled How One Becomes What One Is, is the final original book written by Friedrich Nietzsche before he succumbed to the insanity which lasted until his death in 1900....
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Grammars of Creation
- De: George Steiner
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, this volume can fairly be called a magnum opus....
De: George Steiner
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Prometheism
- De: Jason Reza Jorjani
- Narrado por: Daniel Natal
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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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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Genius.
- De Anonymous User en 02-27-24
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Dressed
- A Philosophy of Clothes
- De: Shahidha Bari
- Narrado por: Shahidha Bari
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world....
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This isn't about fashion.
- De barrett wissell en 01-18-23
De: Shahidha Bari
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The Performer
- Art, Life, Politics
- De: Richard Sennett
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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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.
De: Richard Sennett
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El elogio de la sombra
- De: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrado por: Victor Clavijo
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
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Un ensayo breve y al mismo tiempo revelador sobre el pensamiento estético en el arte japonés. En él, Tanizaki Junichiro reflexiona sobre el amor por el detalle, el minimalismo...
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
- De: Edmund Burke
- Narrado por: Matt Addis
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics....
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Ought to be read more
- De Easy Rhino en 06-19-21
De: Edmund Burke
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
- A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
- De: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Narrado por: J.F. Martel, Donna Tartt
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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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....
De: J.F. Martel, y otros
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Disobedient Bodies
- De: Emma Dabiri
- Narrado por: Emma Dabiri
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
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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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Great topic, got lost in the weeds
- De aslan en 02-10-24
De: Emma Dabiri
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Chromophobia
- FOCI
- De: David Batchelor
- Narrado por: Peter Coates
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
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The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse–a fear of corruption or contamination through color–lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought....
De: David Batchelor
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Incompletos
- Filosofía para un pensamiento elegante
- De: José Carlos Ruiz
- Narrado por: Pablo Martínez Gugel
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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La elegancia, en su etimología, está emparentada con la elección (eligĕre), de tal manera que una persona elegante, entre otras cosas, es aquella que sabe elegir...
De: José Carlos Ruiz
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The Art of Fiction
- De: Henry James, Walter Besant
- Narrado por: ChasMandala
- Duración: 2 h y 6 m
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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....
De: Henry James, y otros
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How to Build a Boat
- A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
- De: Jonathan Gornall
- Narrado por: Jonathan Gornall
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Part ode to building something with one’s hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure....
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The beautiful writing.
- De Anonymous User en 02-21-24
De: Jonathan Gornall
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Survival of the Beautiful
- Art, Science, and Evolution
- De: David Rothenberg
- Narrado por: Kris Koscheski
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution....
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Not as interesting as I hoped
- De Rachel en 03-31-15
De: David Rothenberg
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Material: Making and the Art of Transformation
- De: Nick Kary
- Narrado por: Nick Kary
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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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....
De: Nick Kary
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High Heel
- De: Summer Brennan
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
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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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So good, my feet hurt LOL!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-14-21
De: Summer Brennan