How Long to Read Deconstructing Dignity

How Long Does it Take to Read Deconstructing Dignity?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 55 minutes to read Deconstructing Dignity by Scott Cutler Shershow

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

Description

The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo. In Deconstructing Dignity, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate. Shershow examines texts from Cicero’s De Officiis to Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals to court decisions and religious declarations. Through them he reveals how arguments both supporting and denying the right to die undermine their own unconditional concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life with a hidden conditional logic, one often tied to practical economic concerns and the scarcity or unequal distribution of medical resources. He goes on to examine the exceptional case of self-sacrifice, closing with a vision of a society—one whose conditions we are far from meeting—in which the debate can finally be resolved. A sophisticated analysis of a heated topic, Deconstructing Dignity is also a masterful example of deconstructionist methods at work.

How long is Deconstructing Dignity?

Deconstructing Dignity by Scott Cutler Shershow is 228 pages long, and a total of 58,824 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Deconstructing Dignity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 21 minutes to read Deconstructing Dignity aloud.

What Reading Level is Deconstructing Dignity?

Deconstructing Dignity 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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