How Long to Read Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture

How Long Does it Take to Read Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 45 minutes to read Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture by Dr Freya Sierhuis

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

Description

Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both Aristotelian and Galenic models from antiquity, and new mechanistic formations in Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. A powerful sense of paradox emerges in treatments of the passions in the early modern period, also reflected in new literary and philosophical forms in which inwardness was displayed, analysed and studied—the autobiography, the essay, the soliloquy—genres which rewrite the formation of subjectivity. At the same time, the frame of reference moves outwards, from the world of interior states to encounter the passions on a public stage, thus reconnecting literary study with the history of political thought. In between the abstract theory of political ideas and the inward selves of literary history, lies a field of intersections waiting to be explored. The passions, like human nature itself, are infinitely variable, and provoke both literary experimentation and philosophical imagination. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture thus makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the emotions in order to suggest both new models of the self and new models for interdisciplinary history.

How long is Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture?

Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture by Dr Freya Sierhuis is 449 pages long, and a total of 116,291 words.

This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 142% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 35 minutes to read Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture aloud.

What Reading Level is Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture?

Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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