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15 - I.15 Metaphysical Criticism

In The Greek View of Life

Read by Martin Geeson


Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson


“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…

41 - The Value of Criticism

In Mince Pie

Read by Daryl Wor


Christopher Morley


Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: &quo…

An Attempt At Self-Criticism

In The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (Version 2)

Read by John Van Stan


Friedrich Nietzsche


This is one of Nietzsche's early academic writings - a scholarly theory about Ancient Greek theatre, specifically tragedies. In a nutshell, …

The Function of Dramatic Criticism

In Studies in Stagecraft

Read by realisticspeakers


Clayton Hamilton


A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in gener…

Mpongwe Tale 13. Unkind Criticism

In Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales

Read by laurakgibbs


Robert Hamill Nassau


Robert Nassau spent four decades as a medical missionary in Africa, arriving at Corisco Island, now part of Equatorial Guinea, in 1861; he a…

Thinking with Stories: Listening in to Women’s Voices

In Mansfield College

Read by Marina Warner


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Book 4: The Sparkling Mercy Part 5

In All Sorts of People - Ordered Complexity

Read by Lane Friesen


Lane Friesen


'All Sorts of People - Ordered Complexity' is a collection of seven linked books: Book One presents personality differences - we may describ…

Episode 12

In Lost and Not Found

Read by Teel McClanahan III


Teel McClanahan III


Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …

13 - Book 2 Chapter 5 : Criticism

In On War (Volume 1)

Read by Timothy Ferguson


Carl von Clausewitz and Carl Von Clausewitz


A classic work on military strategy by a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars. The author's style is dialectical: he makes two strong but opposing…

38 - Chapter 34 - The Higher Criticism

In This, That, and the Other

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, h…

Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy 01

In The World as Will and Idea, Vol. 2 of 3

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Arthur Schopenhauer


In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiab…

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