It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Inventing the Individual by Larry Siedentop
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west. The invention of a new, equal social role, the individual, gradually displaced the claims of family, tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation. Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and government are built, and argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs emerged much earlier than we think. The roots of liberalism - belief in...
Inventing the Individual by Larry Siedentop is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Inventing the Individual aloud.
Inventing the Individual is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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