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Classic Audiobook Collection - The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
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The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

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07/08/23

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The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In The Birth of Tragedy, a young Friedrich Nietzsche sets out to explain how the greatest achievements of ancient Greek art emerged - and why modern culture so often feels artistically and spiritually exhausted. Moving from myth and music to drama and philosophy, Nietzsche argues that Greek tragedy was born from a volatile tension between two forces: the Apollonian impulse toward form, clarity, and luminous images, and the Dionysian impulse toward ecstasy, intoxication, and the breakdown of ordinary boundaries. At the center of the story stands tragedy's rise and decline, from the choral origins of ritual to the stagecraft of Aeschylus and Sophocles, and then toward a turning point Nietzsche links to the ascendancy of rational explanation. Along the way he confronts Socrates, probes the role of suffering in art, and offers an audacious defense of music - especially the kind of primal, world-shaping music he associates with the spirit of Wagner. Provocative, lyrical, and combative, this book invites listeners to ask what art is for, what a culture needs in order to flourish, and whether modern life can recover a tragic wisdom without surrendering to despair.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:44:40) Chapter 01

(01:21:05) Chapter 02

(01:24:20) Chapter 03

(01:38:55) Chapter 04

(01:49:35) Chapter 05

(02:00:20) Chapter 06

(02:12:31) Chapter 07

(02:30:51) Chapter 08

(02:42:51) Chapter 09

(02:59:06) Chapter 10

(03:19:46) Chapter 11

(03:38:11) Chapter 12

(03:49:06) Chapter 13

(04:06:11) Chapter 14

(04:24:21) Chapter 15

(04:34:46) Chapter 16

(04:48:41) Chapter 17

(05:04:56) Chapter 18

(05:23:26) Chapter 19

(05:41:11) Chapter 20

(05:54:23) Chapter 21

(06:18:53) Chapter 22

(06:27:43) Chapter 23

(06:49:08) Chapter 24

(07:02:48) Chapter 25

(07:16:28) Chapter 26

(07:30:23) Chapter 27

(07:35:30) Chapter 28

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The Soul or Rational Psychology by Emanuel Swedenborg audiobook.

Genre: philosophy

In The Soul, or Rational Psychology, Emanuel Swedenborg brings the mind of an 18th-century scientist to one of humanity's oldest questions: what is the soul, and how does it work within a living person? Writing before his later visionary theological works, Swedenborg sets out to build a rational account of the soul's nature, its relationship to the body, and the inner machinery of human life - sensation, imagination, memory, understanding, and will. Moving between careful observation, philosophical argument, and the anatomical knowledge of his era, he challenges the listener to consider whether thought and feeling can be reduced to matter alone, or whether a deeper principle must be admitted to explain consciousness, freedom, and moral responsibility. Along the way, Swedenborg explores how the soul communicates with the senses, how the mind forms ideas from experience, and how a person can be both a physical organism and a self-aware agent. Dense, ambitious, and often surprisingly modern in its aims, this work is a rigorous invitation to follow reason as far as it can go in the search for the soul.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:48:30) Chapter 02

(00:52:04) Chapter 03

(00:56:29) Chapter 04

(01:16:05) Chapter 05

(01:25:11) Chapter 06

(01:32:58) Chapter 07

(01:53:49) Chapter 08

(02:22:50) Chapter 09

(02:35:49) Chapter 10

(02:43:53) Chapter 11

(02:57:03) Chapter 12

(03:17:01) Chapter 13

(03:39:38) Chapter 14

(04:01:54) Chapter 15

(04:28:07) Chapter 16

(04:56:19) Chapter 17

(05:22:50) Chapter 18

(05:37:12) Chapter 19

(05:58:25) Chapter 20

(06:20:07) Chapter 21

(06:40:12) Chapter 22

(07:05:02) Chapter 23

(07:32:17) Chapter 24

(07:53:21) Chapter 25

(08:12:25) Chapter 26

(08:39:20) Chapter 27

(09:00:41) Chapter 28

(09:18:56) Chapter 29

(09:41:42) Chapter 30

(09:49:46) Chapter 31

(10:10:05) Chapter 32

(10:30:31) Chapter 33

(10:54:44) Chapter 34

(11:23:53) Chapter 35

(12:01:12) Chapter 36

(12:26:40) Chapter 37

(12:46:36) Chapter 38

(12:57:54) Chapter 39

(13:04:03) Chapter 40

(13:10:46) Chapter 41

(13:20:51) Chapter 42

(13:34:22) Chapter 43

(13:51:38) Chapter 44

(14:05:52) Chapter 45

(14:23:45) Chapter 46

(14:40:21) Chapter 47

(14:48:20) Chapter 48

(15:05:38) Chapter 49

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File No. 113 by Emile Gaboriau audiobook.

Genre: mystery

As the story opens the impregnable safe of the Fauvel bank is robbed of 350,000 francs. As the only keyholders are Andre Fauvel the owner and his trusted head cashier it stands to reason that one of the two must be guilty. Both adamantly refute the charge. Enter the celebrated detective, and master of disguise, Monsieur Le coq who is determined to prove the accused Prosper Bertomy innocent and why he was framed. Believing the crimes linked he enlists the aid of 'The Squirrel'', an aspiring detective, in order to unravel the ingenuous plot of two despicable scoundrels, the Marquis de Clameran and Raoul Lagors, who have coerced the banker's wife and his niece Madeleine into giving up their money and precious jewels. With his methodical and superior investigative skills Le Coq uncovers the past betrayals, deceit, lies and family secrets that led to this vile plot which has affected so many lives.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:10) Chapter 02

(01:00:23) Chapter 03

(01:31:50) Chapter 04

(02:03:45) Chapter 05

(02:38:00) Chapter 06

(03:02:24) Chapter 07

(03:26:40) Chapter 08

(03:57:47) Chapter 09

(04:24:54) Chapter 10

(04:44:17) Chapter 11

(05:10:14) Chapter 12

(05:36:25) Chapter 13

(05:59:29) Chapter 14

(06:21:41) Chapter 15

(06:46:58) Chapter 16

(07:07:04) Chapter 17

(07:36:47) Chapter 18

(08:06:28) Chapter 19

(08:45:34) Chapter 20

(09:16:32) Chapter 21

(09:44:24) Chapter 22

(10:07:18) Chapter 23

(10:28:12) Chapter 24

(10:53:58) Chapter 25

(11:24:45) Chapter 26

(11:52:00) Chapter 27

(12:26:54) Chapter 28

(12:55:52) Chapter 29

(13:21:21) Chapter 30

(13:50:36) Chapter 31

(14:15:07) Chapter 32

(14:39:43) Chapter 33

(14:58:38) Chapter 34

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