How Long to Read Culture and Democracy

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture and Democracy?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 30 minutes to read Culture and Democracy by Hugh Dalziel Duncan

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

Description

This work by the late and great sociologist Hugh Dalziel Duncan, paints the great panorama of the Middle West, where egalitarianism is the most cherished value, and money is the most important vehicle of life. How art finds a place in this society is shown in the specific struggle between the architects, businessmen, unionists, and educators of Chicago. Into such specifics Duncan reveals the place of supposedly abstract theories developed by John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, Thorstein Veblen, and above all, Louis H. Sullivan, whose school of architecture presents both a new form of physical design and a new order of society. The rise, seeming defeat, and final triumph of Sullivan's principles of order in architecture are related to his social and aesthetic theories of form in society. In democratic society, all individuals must be capable of art, just as all individuals share in art as experience. Sullivan's description of the development within the individual of the idea of architecture is treated as an allegory of such development in the spirit of democratic values. His life is offered as a parable of the problem facing American artists as they attempt to root art in democratic culture. In Sullivan's words: "The critical study of architecture becomes not merely the direct study of art, but in extenso, a study of the social conditions producing it. The study of a newly shaping type of civilization. By this light, the study of architecture becomes naturally and logically a branch of social science. . . ." Duncan's exceptional volume, written with grace and clarity, registers the achievements of this Chicago School, showing how culture and democracy reached a special moment of consensus with the money-based economy of our time.

How long is Culture and Democracy?

Culture and Democracy by Hugh Dalziel Duncan is 616 pages long, and a total of 157,696 words.

This makes it 208% the length of the average book. It also has 193% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture and Democracy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 21 minutes to read Culture and Democracy aloud.

What Reading Level is Culture and Democracy?

Culture and Democracy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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