How Long to Read Mindfulness and Its Discontents

How Long Does it Take to Read Mindfulness and Its Discontents?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Mindfulness and Its Discontents by David Forbes

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

Description

Mindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized self, and is corporatized and repackaged as a strategy to cope with our stressful society through an emphasis on self-responsibility and self-promotion. Rather than a way to promote human development and social justice, McMindfulness covertly reinforces neoliberalism and capitalism, the very self-promoting systems that worsen our suffering. In Mindfulness and Its Discontents, David Forbes provides an integral framework for a critical, social, moral mindfulness that both challenges unmindful practices and ideas and provides a way forward. He analyzes how education curricula across North America employ mindfulness: to help students learn to succeed in a neoliberal society by enhancing the ego through emphasizing individualistic skills and the self-regulation of anger and stress. Forbes argues that mindfulness educators instead should uncover and resist the sources of stress and distress that stem from an inequitable, racist, individualistic, market-based (neoliberal) society and shows how school mindfulness programs can help bring about one that is more transformative, compassionate and just.

How long is Mindfulness and Its Discontents?

Mindfulness and Its Discontents by David Forbes is 255 pages long, and a total of 65,025 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Mindfulness and Its Discontents Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Mindfulness and Its Discontents aloud.

What Reading Level is Mindfulness and Its Discontents?

Mindfulness and Its Discontents 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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