How Long to Read Passion and Action

How Long Does it Take to Read Passion and Action?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Passion and Action by Susan James

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

Description

Passion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was central to the theories of many major figures, including Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke. Yet little attention has been paid to this topic in studies of early modern thought. Susan James surveys the inheritance of ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, then shows how these were incorporated into new philosophical theories in the course of the seventeenth century. She examines the relation of the emotions to will, knowledge, understanding, desire, and power, offering fresh analyses and interpretations of a broad range of texts by little-known writers as well as canonical figures, and establishing that a full understanding of these authors must take account of their discussions of our affective life. Passion and Action also addresses current debates, particularly those within feminist philosophy, about the embodied character of thinking and the relation between emotion and knowledge. This ground-breaking study throws new light upon the shaping of our ideas about the mind, and provides a historical context for burgeoning contemporary investigations of the emotions.

How long is Passion and Action?

Passion and Action by Susan James is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Passion and Action Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Passion and Action aloud.

What Reading Level is Passion and Action?

Passion and Action is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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