How Long to Read Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference

How Long Does it Take to Read Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference by Jeff Noonan

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

Description

The most influential theories of oppression have argued that belief in some shared human essence or nature is ultimately responsible for the injustices suffered by women, First Nations peoples, blacks, gays and lesbians, and colonised people and have insisted that struggles against oppression must be mounted from the unique and different perspectives of different groups. Jeff Noonan argues instead that such difference must be seen to be anchored in a conception of human beings as self-creative. Unless freedom and self-determination are accepted as universal values, the moral force of arguments against exclusion and oppression is lost. Noonan shows that at the core of postmodern philosophy, with its claim that culture creates humans, is a concern to dethrone the modern understanding of human beings as subjects, as builders of their world and free when those world-building activities are the outcome of free choices. He explains that because the postmodern conception of human being does not capture what is universal in all humans it is incapable of critically responding to the forcible subordination of different cultures to European "humanity." When oppressed groups explain why they struggle against oppression, they invoke just that idea of human being as subjectivity that postmodern philosophy claims is the basis of oppression. Noonan argues that the voices of cultural differences, when they struggle against the forces of hatred and exclusion, do not ground themselves just in the particular value of their culture but in the universal value of human freedom and self-determination.

How long is Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference?

Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference by Jeff Noonan is 206 pages long, and a total of 52,736 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 48 minutes to read Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference aloud.

What Reading Level is Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference?

Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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