How Long to Read Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence

How Long Does it Take to Read Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 9 minutes to read Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence by Aspen E. Brinton

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Description

The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka not only witnessed some of the most turbulent politics of twentieth-century Central Europe, but shaped his philosophy in response to that tumult. One of the last students of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, he inspired Václav Havel and other dissidents who confronted the Communist regime before 1989, as well as being actively involved in authoring and enacting Charter 77. He died in 1977 from medical complications resulting from interrogations of the secret police. Confronting Totalitarian Minds examines his legacy along with several contemporary applications of his ideas about dissidence, solidarity, and the human being’s existential confrontation with unjust politics. Expanding the current possibilities of comparative political theory, the author puts Patocka’s ideas about dissidence, citizen mobilization, and civic responsibility into conversation with notable world historical figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and other contemporary activists. In adding a fresh voice to contemporary conversations on transcending injustice, Confronting Totalitarian Minds seeks to educate a wider audience about this philosopher’s continued relevance to political dissidents across the world.

How long is Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence?

Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence by Aspen E. Brinton is 299 pages long, and a total of 77,441 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence aloud.

What Reading Level is Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence?

Confronting Totalitarian Minds: Jan Patočka on Politics and Dissidence is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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