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Theory of the Image
- By: Thomas Nail
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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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. Responding to this historical moment, Theory of the Image offers a fresh new theory and history of art from the perspective of this epoch-defining mobility. The image has been understood in many ways, but it is rarely understood to be fundamentally in motion.
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Theory of the Image
- Narrated by: Doug McDonald
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-06-20
- Language: English
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Humour
- By: Terry Eagleton
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humor and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humor subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit?
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Humour
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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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. Examining philosophical, evolutionary, and literary perspectives on imagination, the author shows how this facility, while potentially distorting, both frees us from immediate reality and enriches our sense of it, making possible our experience of a meaningful world.
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Imagination
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 26-10-23
- Language: English
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Shadow Work Guide for Couples
- Enhance Self-Love, Connection, Conflict-Resolution and Intimacy, for Relationship Growth
- By: Jennifer Alushan
- Narrated by: Melli Achna
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Are you tired of repeating the same old patterns that leave you feeling alone and unheard? You're not the only one. Studies show that unresolved conflicts and lack of emotional intimacy are among the top reasons couples split up or live in misery. But what if you could change all that starting today? What if you had the tools to build a love that lasts—passionate, honest, and unbreakable? That's where Shadow Work Guide for Couples comes in. In this intimate guide, you'll embark on a transformative journey into the hidden depths of yourself and your partner.
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Compassionate
- By Esther R. on 26-02-25
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Shadow Work Guide for Couples
- Enhance Self-Love, Connection, Conflict-Resolution and Intimacy, for Relationship Growth
- Narrated by: Melli Achna
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 06-09-24
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Happiness
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of Happiness starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be - and argues that it is architecture’s task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.
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Was looking forward to it but…
- By Anna on 08-04-23
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The Architecture of Happiness
- Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 29-03-13
- Language: English
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Thought’s Wilderness
- Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature
- By: Greg Ellermann
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness insists that it is analytically and politically indispensable, and that romanticism shows us why. Without a concept of nature, Greg Ellermann argues, our thinking is limited to the world that capitalism has made. Defamiliarizing the tradition of romantic nature writing, Ellermann contends that the romantics tried to circumvent the domination of nature that is essential to modern capitalism.
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Thought’s Wilderness
- Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 29-03-23
- Language: English
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Theory of the Gimmick
- Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
- By: Sianne Ngai
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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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. Above all, acclaimed theorist Sianne Ngai argues, the gimmick strikes us both as working too little (a labor-saving trick) and as working too hard (a strained effort to get our attention).
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Theory of the Gimmick
- Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 14-09-21
- Language: English
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The Discipline of Inspiration
- The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity
- By: Carey Wallace
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
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But what is inspiration? When we train artists, we typically identify them by their talent and train them in technique. We talk very little about the crucial creative spark of inspiration. Where does it come from? What does it want from us? How can we get more of it? In The Discipline of Inspiration, Carey Wallace meditates on this vital spark and on the ways artists have negotiated with it across genres and throughout history.
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The Discipline of Inspiration
- The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 02-01-25
- Language: English
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Modern Translation
- By: Marcus Aurelius, Andrew Weston
- Narrated by: Andrew Weston
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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This numismatic edition of Andrew Weston's modern translation is richly annotated with living historical context to enhance your experience of the ancient philosophy text. The deeply personal thoughts in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations reach out across the ages, resounding with truth and meaning…. an antidote to chaos now, as it was then. You will gain valuable insight into ancient Greek and Roman philosophy through the eyes and contemplations of one man, who ruled an empire, and sought to do so wisely.
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Modern Translation
- Narrated by: Andrew Weston
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 22-11-24
- Language: English
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The Virtues of the Table
- How to Eat and Think
- By: Julian Baggini
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relationship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves. So can thinking about food teach us about being virtuous, and can what we eat help us to decide how to live?
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The Virtues of the Table
- How to Eat and Think
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-11-14
- Language: English
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Counsels and Maxims
- By: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Counsels and Maxims is a classic work by noted German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. His work has influenced some of the modern world's greatest thinkers, including Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erwin Schrödinger. This piece was originally translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders.
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Counsels and Maxims
- Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 26-06-19
- Language: English
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The Power of Cute
- By: Simon May
- Narrated by: Anthony Head
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T. - all reflect its gathering power. But what does “cute” mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more uncanny and even menacing going on - in a lighthearted way? In The Power of Cute, Simon May provides nuanced and surprising answers.
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cute is not always cute
- By angelahulme on 26-11-20
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The Power of Cute
- Narrated by: Anthony Head
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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High Heel
- By: Summer Brennan
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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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. Summer Brennan considers this most provocative of fashion accessories as a nexus of desire and struggle, sex and society, violence and self expression, setting out to understand what it means to be a woman by walking a few hundred years in her shoes.
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High Heel
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-07-19
- Language: English
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Mirror, Mirror
- The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
- By: Simon Blackburn
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism and vanity really as bad as they seem? Can we avoid them even if we try? In Mirror, Mirror, Simon Blackburn, the author of such best-selling philosophy books as Think, Being Good, and Lust, says that narcissism, vanity, pride, and self-esteem are more complex than they first appear and have innumerable good and bad forms.
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Mirror, Mirror
- The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 16-04-14
- Language: English
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Specchio delle mie brame. La prigione della bellezza
- By: Maura Gancitano
- Narrated by: Maura Gancitano
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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L'idea che la bellezza sia qualcosa di oggettivo e naturale è una superstizione moderna. Infatti non è mai esistita un'epoca in cui non convivessero estetiche e sensibilità diverse. Il culto della bellezza è diventato una prigione solo di recente: quando le coercizioni materiali verso le donne hanno iniziato ad allentarsi, il canone estetico nei confronti del loro aspetto è diventato rigido e asfissiante, spingendole alla ricerca di una perfezione irraggiungibile.
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Specchio delle mie brame. La prigione della bellezza
- Narrated by: Maura Gancitano
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 05-02-24
- Language: Italian
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This Beauty
- A Philosophy of Being Alive
- By: Nick Riggle
- Narrated by: Nick Riggle
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
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Philosopher Nick Riggle explores the beauty of being alive by investigating the things we say to inspire ourselves and each other: seize the day, treat yourself, you only live once. These clichés are at best vague, at worst stupid. They imply that you should do something wild with your life because your life is precious, a little like saying you should go swimming with your grandfather’s watch because it is irreplaceable.
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This Beauty
- A Philosophy of Being Alive
- Narrated by: Nick Riggle
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-12-22
- Language: English
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Cosmos : Le sublime 1
- Brève encyclopédie du monde 4.1
- By: Michel Onfray
- Narrated by: Michel Onfray
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Le dernier opus de "Cosmos" explore les arts, la poésie et la musique : ces créations humaines qui s'allient à la nature pour permettre à chacun d'expérimenter le sublime. Des origines préhistoriques à la prédominance chrétienne, de l'art bourgeois de la Renaissance jusqu'aux créations contemporaines, Michel Onfray ébauche une contre-histoire des arts, citant Mallarmé, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Bachelard, Georges Rouquier ou Pierre Soulages. L'art change de paradigme, et si la notion cardinale du beau disparaît, elle laisse la place au sublime, ce sentiment d'étonnement radical et subjugué qui peut réunir en un instant l'homme et le cosmos.
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Cosmos : Le sublime 1
- Brève encyclopédie du monde 4.1
- Narrated by: Michel Onfray
- Series: Brève encyclopédie du monde, Book 4.1
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-09-18
- Language: French
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Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
- By: Walter Benjamin
- Narrated by: Ingo Fried
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Walter Benjamin beschreibt in seinem berühmtesten Aufsatz Ursprung und Technik der Reproduktion von Kunstwerken und bietet damit die theoretische Basis für die Diskussion über die Vervielfältigung von Kunst in der Neuzeit.
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Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
- Narrated by: Ingo Fried
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-02-15
- Language: German
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El elogio de la sombra
- By: Junichiro Tanizaki
- Narrated by: Victor Clavijo
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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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, la disciplina y la sutileza que encarna el arte japonés en oposición a la contundencia de lo occidental. Un texto imprescindible para quien quiera empezar a comprender los preceptos del arte nipón.
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El elogio de la sombra
- Narrated by: Victor Clavijo
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-02-22
- Language: Spanish
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Incompletos
- Filosofía para un pensamiento elegante
- By: José Carlos Ruiz
- Narrated by: Pablo Martínez Gugel
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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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. El pensamiento elegante moldea a un sujeto que no lucha por mostrarse distinto entre la multitud sino que se eleva hacia una vida distinguida.
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Incompletos
- Filosofía para un pensamiento elegante
- Narrated by: Pablo Martínez Gugel
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-05-23
- Language: Spanish
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