How Long to Read Metaphor and History

How Long Does it Take to Read Metaphor and History?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 41 minutes to read Metaphor and History by Robert A. Nisbet

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

Description

The primary purpose of Metaphor and History is to explain the sources and contexts of the Western idea of social development. Nisbet explores the concept of social change across the whole range of Western culture, from ancient Greece to the present day. He does not see the idea of social development as a nineteenth century phenomenon or a by-product of the idea of biological evolution. Instead, Nisbet finds the metaphor of organic growth and the analogy of the life cycle--among the oldest in the history of human thought--embedded in the pronouncements of sages, historians, and social scientists from Heraclitus and Aristotle to Comte, Marx, Spengler, Toynbee, Berdyaev, and Sorokin. He relates the classic Greek metaphor of growth, applied to society; the Christian epic, with its substance in the fusion of Hebrew and Greek ideas; and ideas of progress, natural history, evolution, and sociological functionalism. This book may be considered the "biography of a metaphor" of social development, one that has persisted through two and a half millennia of Western European history. A sociologist's view of history, this is a work at once of synthesis and of exploration of the premises and foundations of social evolution and social change.

How long is Metaphor and History?

Metaphor and History by Robert A. Nisbet is 335 pages long, and a total of 85,425 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Metaphor and History Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 46 minutes to read Metaphor and History aloud.

What Reading Level is Metaphor and History?

Metaphor and History is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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