How Long to Read Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness

How Long Does it Take to Read Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 50 minutes to read Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness by Sami Pihlström

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

Description

This book argues that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat them as genuinely other. The authors provide reasons to be critical of various attempts, many of them popular in our contemporary (Western) culture, to encourage deeper attachment to and immersion into others’ lives and experiences. They defend the significance of the distance between human beings, criticizing exaggerated uses of, e.g., the concept of empathy and related concepts in academic as well as more popular ethical contexts, across a range of issues from the nature of ethical duty to the philosophy of love. The chapters offer non-technical philosophical and cultural criticism through selected perspectives on the continuum between closeness and distance, exploring various aspects of ethically significant relations between human beings. This book thus appeals to a wide audience, especially researchers and students in different fields of the humanities, including philosophy, literary studies, and cultural studies, by combining philosophical and literary methodologies in a humanistic examination of the value of distance. The book also argues that we have to be able to abstract from the concrete other in ethical relations, living in the normative and rational sphere of duty instead of emotional immersion.

How long is Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness?

Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness by Sami Pihlström is 110 pages long, and a total of 27,500 words.

This makes it 37% the length of the average book. It also has 34% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 30 minutes to read Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness aloud.

What Reading Level is Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness?

Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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