How Long to Read Arendt and Heidegger

How Long Does it Take to Read Arendt and Heidegger?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Arendt and Heidegger by Dana Richard Villa

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

Description

Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers (including critical theorists, communitarians, and participatory democrats) who had hoped to enlist her in their less radical philosophical or political projects. Against the prevailing "Aristotelian" interpretation of her work, Villa explores Arendt's modernity, and indeed her postmodernity, through the Heideggerian and Nietzschean theme of a break with tradition at the closure of metaphysics. Villa's book, however, is much more than a mere correction of misinterpretations of a major thinker's work. Rather, he makes a persuasive case for Arendt as the postmodern or postmetaphysical political theorist, the first political theorist to think through the nature of political action after Nietzsche's exposition of the death of God (i.e., the collapse of objective correlates to our ideals, ends, and purposes). After giving an account of Arendt's theory of action and Heidegger's influence on it, Villa shows how Arendt did justice to the Heideggerian and Nietzschean criticism of the metaphysical tradition while avoiding the political conclusions they drew from their critiques. The result is a wide-ranging discussion not only of Arendt and Heidegger, but of Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Habermas, and the entire question of politics after metaphysics.

How long is Arendt and Heidegger?

Arendt and Heidegger by Dana Richard Villa is 329 pages long, and a total of 85,211 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Arendt and Heidegger Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 45 minutes to read Arendt and Heidegger aloud.

What Reading Level is Arendt and Heidegger?

Arendt and Heidegger is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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