It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read Fin de Siècle Social Theory by Jeffrey C. Alexander
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In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous fin de siècle foundered in the face of the cataclysms of the twentieth century, when war, revolution, and totalitarianism came to be seen as themselves products of reason. In response there emerged the profound skepticism about rationality that has so starkly defined the present fin de siècle. From Wittgenstein through Rorty and postmodernism, relativism rejects the very possibility of...
Fin de Siècle Social Theory by Jeffrey C. Alexander is 231 pages long, and a total of 57,981 words.
This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Fin de Siècle Social Theory aloud.
Fin de Siècle Social Theory is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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