How Long to Read Damn Great Empires!

How Long Does it Take to Read Damn Great Empires!?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Damn Great Empires! by Alexander Livingston

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

Description

Damn Great Empires! offers a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at the center of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs James's overlooked political thought by treating his anti-imperialist Nachlass -- his speeches, essays, notes, and correspondence on the United States' annexation of the Philippines -- as the key to unlocking the political significance of his celebrated writings on psychology, religion, and philosophy. It shows how James located a craving for authority at the heart of empire as a way of life, a craving he diagnosed and unsettled through his insistence on a modern world without ultimate foundations. Livingston explores the persistence of political questions in James's major works, from his writings on the self in The Principles of Psychology to the method of Pragmatism, the study of faith and conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience, and the metaphysical inquiries in A Pluralistic Universe. Against the conventional view of James as a thinker who remained silent on questions of politics, this book places him in dialogue with a transatlantic critique of modernity, as well as with champions and critics of American imperialism, from Theodore Roosevelt to W. E. B. Du Bois, in order to excavate James's anarchistic political vision. Bringing the history of political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory, Damn Great Empires! offers a fresh and original reexamination of the political consequences of pragmatism as a public philosophy.

How long is Damn Great Empires!?

Damn Great Empires! by Alexander Livingston is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Damn Great Empires! Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Damn Great Empires! aloud.

What Reading Level is Damn Great Empires!?

Damn Great Empires! is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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