How Long to Read Plato and the Invention of Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Plato and the Invention of Life?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Plato and the Invention of Life by Michael Naas

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

Description

The question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later dialogues, including the Statesman, begins to discover—or, better, to invent—a notion of true or real life that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived. This emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues illuminates the structural relationship between many of Plato’s most time-honored distinctions, such as being and becoming, soul and body. At the same time, it helps to explain the enormous power and authority that Plato’s thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition. Lucid yet sophisticated, Naas’s account offers a fundamental rereading of what the concept of life entails, one that inflects a range of contemporary conversations, from biopolitics, to the new materialisms, to the place of the human within the living world.

How long is Plato and the Invention of Life?

Plato and the Invention of Life by Michael Naas is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Plato and the Invention of Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read Plato and the Invention of Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Plato and the Invention of Life?

Plato and the Invention of Life 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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