How Long to Read Culture of Enlightening

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture of Enlightening?

It takes the average reader 12 hours and 58 minutes to read Culture of Enlightening by Jeffrey D. Burson

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Description

Recent scholarly and popular attempts to define the Enlightenment, account for its diversity, and evaluate its historical significance suffer from a surprising lack of consensus at a time when the social and political challenges of today cry out for a more comprehensive and serviceable understanding of its importance. This book argues that regnant notions of the Enlightenment, the Radical Enlightenment, and the multitude of regional and religious enlightenments proposed by scholars all share an entangled intellectual genealogy rooted in a broader revolutionary "culture of enlightening" that took shape over the long-arc of intellectual history from the waning of the sixteenth-century Reformations to the dawn of the Atlantic Revolutionary era. Generated in competition for a changing readership and forged in dialog and conflict, dynamic and diverse notions of what it meant to be enlightened constituted a broader culture of enlightening from which the more familiar strains of the Enlightenment emerged, often ironically and accidentally, from originally religious impulses and theological questioning. By adapting, for the first time, methodological insights from the scholarship of historical entanglement (l'histoire croisée) to the study of the Enlightenment, this book provides a new interpretation of the European republic of letters from the late 1600s through the 1700s by focusing on the lived experience of the long-neglected Catholic theologian, historian, and contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie, Abbé Claude Yvon. The ambivalent historical memory of Yvon, as well as the eclectic and global array of his sources and endeavors, Burson argues, can serve as a gauge for evaluating historical transformations in the surprisingly diverse ways in which eighteenth-century individuals spoke about enlightening human reason, religion, and society. Ultimately, Burson provocatively claims that even the most radical fruits of the Enlightenment can be understood as the unintended offspring of a revolution in theology and the cultural history of religious experience.

How long is Culture of Enlightening?

Culture of Enlightening by Jeffrey D. Burson is 757 pages long, and a total of 194,549 words.

This makes it 255% the length of the average book. It also has 238% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Culture of Enlightening Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 17 hours and 43 minutes to read Culture of Enlightening aloud.

What Reading Level is Culture of Enlightening?

Culture of Enlightening is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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