How Long to Read Decolonizing Theory

How Long Does it Take to Read Decolonizing Theory?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Decolonizing Theory by Aditya Nigam

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

Description

Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought traditions, connecting to what it argues is a new global moment in the reconstitution of theory. The key argument, which is the point of departure of the book, is that any serious theorizing in the non-West should be fundamentally suspicious of any theory that only gives you one result-that four-fifths of the world does not and cannot do anything right. Everything in the non-West, from its modernity and secularism to its democracy and even capitalism, is always seen to be deficient. In other words, all it tells us is that we do not live up to the standards set by Western modernity. From this point of departure, it seeks to create a conceptual space outside (Western) modernity and capitalism, by insisting on a rethink of non-synchronous synchronicities. The book takes three key themes around which the whole story of modernity can be unraveled, namely the question of the political, capital and historical time, and secularism for a detailed discussion. It does so by bracketing, in a sense, the autobiographical story that Western modernity gives itself. In each case, it tries to show that past forms never simply disappear, without residue, to be fully supplanted by the modern, and merely applying theory produced in one context to another is, therefore, very misleading.

How long is Decolonizing Theory?

Decolonizing Theory by Aditya Nigam is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Decolonizing Theory Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Decolonizing Theory aloud.

What Reading Level is Decolonizing Theory?

Decolonizing Theory is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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