The Genealogy of Morals: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Genealogy of Morals, credited to Friedrich Nietzsche, 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 Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by Horace B. Samuel.) Read in English by Jeffrey Church. In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in form, of all Nietzsche's productions. For analytical power, more especially in those parts where Nietzsche examines the ascetic ideal, The Genealogy of Morals is unequalled by any other of his works; and, in the light which it throws upon the attitude of the ecclesiast to the man of resentment and misfortune, it is one of the most valuable contributions to sacerdotal psychology. (summary by the editor of the Samuel translation)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Genealogy of Morals
• Author credits: Friedrich Nietzsche
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 5:44:43

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• Christianity
• psychology
• morality
• ethics

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 22:32
2. 01 - First Essay, Part 1 — 38:09
3. 02 - First Essay, Part 2 — 36:17
4. 03 - Second Essay, Part 1 — 52:16
5. 04 - Second Essay, Part 2 — 42:42
6. 05 - Third Essay, Part 1 — 50:55
7. 06 - Third Essay, Part 2 — 49:02
8. 07 - Third Essay, Part 3 — 52:50

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