How Long to Read Death-Drive

How Long Does it Take to Read Death-Drive?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Death-Drive by Robert Rowland Smith

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

Description

Robert Rowland Smith takes Freud's work on the death-drive and compares it with other philosophies of death - Pascal, Heidegger and Derrida in particular. He also applies it in a new way to literature and art - to Shakespeare, Rothko and Katharina Fritsch, among others. He asks whether artworks are dead or alive, if artistic creativity isn't actually a form of destruction, and whether our ability to be seduced by fine words means we don't put our selves at risk of death. In doing so, he proposes a new theory of aesthetics in which artworks and literary texts have a death-drive of their own,...

How long is Death-Drive?

Death-Drive by Robert Rowland Smith is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Death-Drive Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Death-Drive aloud.

What Reading Level is Death-Drive?

Death-Drive is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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