How Long to Read Rousseau's Legacy

How Long Does it Take to Read Rousseau's Legacy?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Rousseau's Legacy by Dennis Porter

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

Description

Rousseau's Legacy focuses on the new and influential paradigm of the writer that emerged in the decades immediately preceding the French Revolution. Ushered in by Rousseau's combining revolutionary sociopolitical critique with a new art of autobiography, the writer would henceforth differ greatly from the traditional "man of letters." Rousseau inaugurated the idea of a heroic and committed writerly life in which the opposition between public and private selves is collapsed. This was done in the cause of creating a future political community founded on transparency. Porter, with both a wide-ranging knowledge of contemporary theory and an informed interest in cultural/historical context, gives close readings of relevant works by a number of major French writers, including Stendhal, Baudelaire, Sartre, Barthes, Duras, Althusser, and Foucault. Thus, he explores the persistent importance of the Rousseauist paradigm for French literary culture. The book goes beyond a critique or theory that interprets literary or philosophical works for their own sake, to reveal representations and self-representations of the idea of the writer in paintings, engravings, and photographs, as well as in literary texts. In concluding, Porter argues that with the collapse of faith in social and individual regeneration through revolution, the archetype of such a writer is also waning.

How long is Rousseau's Legacy?

Rousseau's Legacy by Dennis Porter is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rousseau's Legacy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Rousseau's Legacy aloud.

What Reading Level is Rousseau's Legacy?

Rousseau's Legacy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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