How Long to Read Catastrophizing

How Long Does it Take to Read Catastrophizing?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 17 minutes to read Catastrophizing by Gerard Passannante

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

Description

When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern period. Reaching back to the time between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Passannante traces a history of catastrophizing through literary and philosophical encounters with materialism—the view that the world is composed of nothing but matter. As artists, poets, philosophers, and scholars pondered the physical causes and material stuff of the cosmos, they conjured up disasters out of thin air and responded as though to events that were befalling them. From Leonardo da Vinci’s imaginative experiments with nature’s destructive forces to the fevered fantasies of doomsday astrologers, from the self-fulfilling prophecies of Shakespeare’s tragic characters to the mental earthquakes that guided Kant toward his theory of the sublime, Passannante shows how and why the early moderns reached for disaster when they ventured beyond the limits of the sensible. He goes on to explore both the danger and the critical potential of thinking catastrophically in our own time.

How long is Catastrophizing?

Catastrophizing by Gerard Passannante is 308 pages long, and a total of 79,464 words.

This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Catastrophizing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 14 minutes to read Catastrophizing aloud.

What Reading Level is Catastrophizing?

Catastrophizing is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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