The Emotions: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Emotions, credited to James McCosh, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Emotions by James McCosh. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred into the common thought and literature of modern times. In this work I treat of the emotions as psychical acts, but I do not overlook their physiological concomitants and effects. I enter little into controversy. My aim has been to expound the truth, and leave it to shine in its own light. - Summary by Adapted from Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Emotions
• Author credits: James McCosh
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 8:22:24

Catalogue topics

• psychology
• emotions
• soul
• phantasm
• appetence
• motive
• idea

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction — 7:07
2. 02 - First Element: Appetences Part 1 — 28:51
3. 03 - First Element: Appetences Part 2 — 22:13
4. 04 - First Element: Appetences Part 3 — 17:01
5. 05 - Second Element: the Idea (Phantasm) Part 1 — 22:37
6. 06 - Second Element: the Idea (Phantasm) Part 2 — 14:45
7. 07 - Second Element: the Idea (Phantasm) Part 3 — 33:09
8. 08 - Third Element: Excitement with Attachment and Repugnance — 23:34
9. 09 - Fourth Element: the Organic Affection Part 1 — 23:18
10. 10 - Fourth Element: the Organic Affection Part 2 — 14:08
11. 11 - Division of the Emotion — 9:01
12. 12 - Emotions as Directed to Animate Objects Part 1 — 22:22
13. 13 - Emotions as Directed to Animate Objects Part 2 — 29:36
14. 14 - Emotions as Directed to Animate Objects Part 3 — 22:49
15. 15 - Emotions Called Forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 1 — 38:16
16. 16 - Emotions Called Forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 2 — 26:52
17. 17 - Emotions Called Forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 3 — 29:36
18. 18 - Emotions Called Forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 4 — 27:48
19. 19 - Emotions Called Forth by Inanimate Objects. The Aesthetic Part 5 — 17:48
20. 20 - Continuous Emotions Part 1 — 20:28
21. 21 - Continuous Emotions Part 2 — 16:57
22. 22 - Motives Swaying Masses — 34:08

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