Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotations): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotations), credited to Friedrich Nietzsche, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotations) by Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by Thomas Common.) Read in English by John Van Stan The modern British philosopher, Anthony M. Ludovici, said that this text “is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum.” However, he warns the reader that since “the book with the most mysterious, startling, or suggestive title, will always stand the best chance of being purchased by those who have no other criteria to guide them in their choice than the aspect of a title-page … ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’ is almost always the first and often the only one of Nietzsche’s books that falls into the hands of the uninitiated.” He therefore recommends reading this text alongside some scholarly annotations, which Ludovici gratefully supplies in the volume read here. To keep Ludovici’s intention, in this version of ‘Zarathustra’ the reader includes these annotations (where available) immediately after the reading. Summary by jvanstan

Recording facts

• Recording title: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (version 2) (includes annotations)
• Author credits: Friedrich Nietzsche
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 83
• Listed recording duration: 16:24:19

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• ethics
• critical philosophy
• zarathustra
• Übermensch
• last man
• eternal recurrence of the same
• will to power

Opening tracks: first 24 of 83

1. 00 - Introductions by Mrs. Forster-Nietzsche & Mr. Anthony M. Ludovici — 49:30
2. 01 - Zarathustra's Prologue — 39:33
3. 02 - Part I: 1. The Three Metamophoses — 7:06
4. 03 - Part I: 2. The Academic Chairs of Virtue — 8:00
5. 04 - Part I: 3. Backworldsmen — 8:30
6. 05 - Part I: 4. The Despisers of the Body — 5:50
7. 06 - Part I: 5. Joys & Passions — 4:45
8. 07 - Part I: 6. The Pale Criminal — 6:04
9. 08 - Part I: 7. Reading & Writing — 4:45
10. 09 - Part I: 8. The Tree on the Hill — 7:13
11. 10 - Part I: 9. The Preachers of Death — 5:00
12. 11 - Part I: 10. Wars & Warriors — 4:55
13. 12 - Part I: 11. The New Idol — 7:15
14. 13 - Part I: 12. The Flies in the Market-Place — 9:08
15. 14 - Part I: 13. Chastity — 3:27
16. 15 - Part I: 14. The Friend — 5:35
17. 16 - Part I: 15. The Thousand & One Goals — 7:07
18. 17 - Part I: 16. Neighbour-Love — 4:32
19. 18 - Part I: 17. The Way of Creating One — 8:00
20. 19 - Part I: 18. Old & Young Women — 9:35
21. 20 - Part I: 19. The Bite of the Adder — 4:49
22. 21 - Part I: 20. Child & Marriage — 5:40
23. 22 - Part I: 21. Voluntary Death — 7:55
24. 23 - Part I: 22. The Bestowing Virtue — 14:20

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