How Long to Read Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 23 minutes to read Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life by Jonathan Lear

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

Description

Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle--whether happiness or death--the pictures fall apart. Aristotle attempted to ground ethical life in human striving for happiness, yet he didn't understand what happiness is any better than we do. Happiness became an enigmatic, always unattainable, means of seducing humankind into living an ethical life. Freud fared no better when he tried to ground human striving, aggression, and destructiveness in the death drive, like Aristotle attributing purpose where none exists. Neither overarching principle can guide or govern "the remainder of life," in which our inherently disruptive unconscious moves in breaks and swerves to affect who and how we are. Lear exposes this tendency to self-disruption for what it is: an opening, an opportunity for new possibilities. His insights have profound consequences not only for analysis but for our understanding of civilization and its discontent.

How long is Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life?

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life by Jonathan Lear is 202 pages long, and a total of 50,904 words.

This makes it 68% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 38 minutes to read Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life?

Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life 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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