Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, 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, by Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), is a work composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals with ideas such as the "eternal recurrence of the same", the parable on the "death of God", and the "prophecy" of the Overman, which were first introduced in The Gay Science. Described by Nietzsche himself as "the deepest ever written", the book is a dense and esoteric treatise on philosophy and morality, featuring as protagonist a fictionalized Zarathustra. A central irony of the text is that the style of the Bible is used by Nietzsche to present ideas of his which fundamentally oppose Judaeo-Christian morality and tradition. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
• Author credits: Friedrich Nietzsche
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 81
• Listed recording duration: 12:39:26

Catalogue topics

• nietzsche
• philosophy
• morality

Opening tracks: first 24 of 81

1. 00 - Zarathustra's Prologue — 35:30
2. 01 - The Three Metamorphoses — 5:21
3. 02 - The Academic Chairs of Virtue — 6:27
4. 03 - Backworldsmen — 7:58
5. 04 - Despisers of the Body — 5:04
6. 05 - Joys and Passions — 4:31
7. 06 - The Pale Criminal — 4:40
8. 07 - Reading and Writing — 3:23
9. 08 - The Tree on the Hill — 5:27
10. 09 - The Preachers of Death — 3:30
11. 10 - War and Warriors — 3:41
12. 11 - The New Idol — 5:35
13. 12 - The Flies in the Marketplace — 5:52
14. 13 - Chastity — 2:22
15. 14 - The Friend — 5:13
16. 15 - The Thousand and One Goals — 5:12
17. 16 - Neighbor-Love — 4:22
18. 17 - The Way of the Creating One — 7:07
19. 18 - Old & Young Women — 5:53
20. 19 - The Bite of the Adder — 5:09
21. 20 - Child and Marriage — 4:09
22. 21 - Voluntary Death — 7:42
23. 22 - The Bestowing Virtue — 13:49
24. 23 - The Child with the Mirror — 6:01

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