How Long to Read Origins of Democratic Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Origins of Democratic Culture?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 24 minutes to read Origins of Democratic Culture by David Zaret

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

Description

This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture of printing in early modern England. For David Zaret, the key to the rise of a democratic public sphere was the impact of this culture of printing on the secrecy and privilege that shrouded political decisions in seventeenth-century England. Zaret explores the unanticipated liberating effects of printing and printed communication in transforming the world of political secrecy into a culture of open discourse and eventually a politics of public opinion. Contrary to those who locate the origins of the public sphere in the philosophical tracts of the French Enlightenment, Zaret claims that it originated as a practical accomplishment, propelled by economic and technical aspects of printing--in particular heightened commercialism and increased capacity to produce texts. Zaret writes that this accomplishment gained impetus when competing elites--Royalists and Parliamentarians, Presbyterians and Independents--used printed material to reach the masses, whose leaders in turn invoked the authority of public opinion to lobby those elites. Zaret further shows how the earlier traditions of communication in England, from ballads and broadsides to inn and alehouse conversation, merged with the new culture of print to upset prevailing norms of secrecy and privilege. He points as well to the paradox for today's critics, who attribute the impoverishment of the public sphere to the very technological and economic forces that brought about the means of democratic discourse in the first place.

How long is Origins of Democratic Culture?

Origins of Democratic Culture by David Zaret is 429 pages long, and a total of 111,111 words.

This makes it 145% the length of the average book. It also has 136% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Origins of Democratic Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 7 minutes to read Origins of Democratic Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Origins of Democratic Culture?

Origins of Democratic Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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