21 audiobooks · 143 hours of listening

Aesthetics audiobooks

What makes something beautiful?

Philosophy of art and beauty: John Ruskin on painting and architecture, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt on literature, Schopenhauer on music, George Santayana's The Sense of Beauty and Benedetto Croce's theory of expression. A shelf for anyone who has stood in front of a painting and wondered why it moved them.

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The best-known aesthetics titles in the library
  1. The Poetics of Aristotle Aristotle · 1h 25m
  2. Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 11h 43m
  3. The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana · 6h 20m
  4. Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) John Ruskin · 17h 17m
  5. Laughter Henri Bergson · 3h 39m
  6. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce · 8h 33m

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Are these aesthetics audiobooks free?

The first chapter of every book plays free with no account. A free account adds the opening chapters of every book, plus one whole book of your choice from a shelf of five classics. The full library — all 21 aesthetics titles and everything else — is $4.99 a month or $49 a year after a 7-day free trial, cancel anytime.

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Yes. Every Compendium audiobook shows the full chapter text on screen as it plays, on the web and in the iPhone and Android apps.

What's the shortest and longest aesthetics audiobook here?

Of Vulgarity is the shortest at 42 min; Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) is the longest at 17 hr 17 min. The whole collection runs about 143 hours.

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