How Long to Read Incomprehensible Certainty

How Long Does it Take to Read Incomprehensible Certainty?

It takes the average reader 21 hours and 48 minutes to read Incomprehensible Certainty by Thomas Pfau

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

Description

Thomas Pfau’s study of images and visual experience is a tour de force linking Platonic metaphysics to modern phenomenology and probing literary, philosophical, and theological accounts of visual experience from Plato to Rilke. Incomprehensible Certainty presents a sustained reflection on the nature of images and the phenomenology of visual experience. Taking the “image” (eikōn) as the essential medium of art and literature and as foundational for the intuitive ways in which we make contact with our “lifeworld,” Thomas Pfau draws in equal measure on Platonic metaphysics and modern phenomenology to advance a series of interlocking claims. First, Pfau shows that, beginning with Plato’s later dialogues, being and appearance came to be understood as ontologically distinct from (but no longer opposed to) one another. Second, in contrast to the idol that is typically gazed at and visually consumed as an object of desire, this study positions the image as a medium whose intrinsic abundance and excess reveal to us its metaphysical function—namely, as the visible analogue of an invisible, numinous reality. Finally, the interpretations unfolded in this book (from Plato, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, John Damascene via Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Julian of Norwich, and Nicholas of Cusa to modern writers and artists such as Goethe, Ruskin, Turner, Hopkins, Cézanne, and Rilke) affirm the essential complementarity of image and word, visual intuition and hermeneutic practice, in theology, philosophy, and literature. Like Pfau’s previous book, Minding the Modern, Incomprehensible Certainty is a major work. With over fifty illustrations, the book will interest students and scholars of philosophy, theology, literature, and art history.

How long is Incomprehensible Certainty?

Incomprehensible Certainty by Thomas Pfau is 1,268 pages long, and a total of 327,144 words.

This makes it 428% the length of the average book. It also has 400% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Incomprehensible Certainty Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 29 hours and 47 minutes to read Incomprehensible Certainty aloud.

What Reading Level is Incomprehensible Certainty?

Incomprehensible Certainty 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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