How Long to Read Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change)

How Long Does it Take to Read Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change)?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 33 minutes to read Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change) by Joanna Zylinska

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

Description

"Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking about life (instead of just continuing to live it) when being confronted with the prospect of death: be it the death of individuals due to illness, accident or old age; the death of whole ethnic or national groups in wars and other forms of armed conflict; but also of whole populations, be they human or nonhuman. Even though Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene is first and foremost concerned with life--understood as both a biological and social phenomenon--it is the narrative about the impending death of the human population (i.e., about the extinction of the human species), that provides a context for its argument. "Anthropocene" names a geo-historical period in which humans are said to have become the biggest threat to life on earth. However, rather than as a scientific descriptor, the term serves here primarily as an ethical injunction to think critically about human and nonhuman agency in the universe. Restrained in tone yet ambitious in scope, the book takes some steps towards outlining a minimal ethics thought on a universal scale. The task of such minimal ethics is to consider how humans can assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe, across different scales, and how they can respond to the tangled mesh of connections and relations unfolding in it. Its goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink "life" and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist's method; it also includes a photographic project by the author."--Publisher's description.

How long is Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change)?

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change) by Joanna Zylinska is 152 pages long, and a total of 38,304 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 29 minutes to read Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change) aloud.

What Reading Level is Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change)?

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Critical Climate Change) is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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