How Long to Read Culture and the Radical Conscience

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture and the Radical Conscience?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read Culture and the Radical Conscience by Eugene Goodheart

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

Description

"A highly cogent, powerfully reasoned statement in defense of culture against its latter-day detractors."-Philip Rahv "A lively, tough, and learned brief for 'high culture' as the indispensable foundation of a university education. [Goodheart's] book deserves the scrupulous attention of everyone troubled by the seemingly irreversible degradation of standards in American intellectual life today."-Pearl K. Bell, the New Leader Debates on culture, politics, and the university have hardly abated since the 1960s when the radical assault on the authority of culture first challenged the classical conception of higher education with imperious demands for relevance and ideological correctness. Since then, campus unrest on the part of students has given way to a radicalized faculty characterized by contempt for high culture, fetishization of pop culture, and increasing absorption by feminism and identity politics. While this development has not gone unchallenged, most have dismissed opponents of traditional scholarship as intellectual nihilists and anarchists. In contrast, Eugene Goodheart's Culture and the Radical Conscience recognizes the moral and cultural roots of radical and utopian tradition while deploring its tendency toward intolerance and narrowness. Goodheart defends the study of serious literature for its interplay of aesthetic response, alertness to political theme, and historical awareness. Eugene Goodheart is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University. His books include Modernism and the Critical Spirit (available from Transaction), The Skeptic Disposition, Desire and Its Discontents, The Reign of Ideology, and Does Literary Studies Have a Future?

How long is Culture and the Radical Conscience?

Culture and the Radical Conscience by Eugene Goodheart is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture and the Radical Conscience Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read Culture and the Radical Conscience aloud.

What Reading Level is Culture and the Radical Conscience?

Culture and the Radical Conscience is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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