How Long to Read Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis

How Long Does it Take to Read Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 31 minutes to read Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis by Norman O. Brown

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body, this collection of eleven essays brings Brown's thinking up to 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Brown writes that "the prophetic tradition is an attempt to give direction to the social structure precipitated by the urban revolution; to resolve its inherent contradictions; to put an end to its injustice, inequality, anomie, the state of war . . . that has been its history from start to finish." Affiliating himself with prophets from Muhammad to Blake and Emerson, Brown offers further meditations on what's wrong with Western civilization and what we might do about it. Thus the duality in his title: crisis and the hope for change. In pieces both poetic and philosophical, Brown's attention ranges over Greek mythology, Islam, Spinoza, and Finnegan's Wake. The collection includes an autobiographical essay musing on Brown's own intellectual development. The final piece, "Dionysus in 1990," draws on Freud and the work of Georges Bataille to link the recent changes in the world's economies with mankind's primordial drive to accumulation, waste, and death.

How long is Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis?

Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis by Norman O. Brown is 211 pages long, and a total of 52,961 words.

This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 49 minutes to read Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis aloud.

What Reading Level is Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis?

Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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