How Long to Read Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence

How Long Does it Take to Read Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence by Peter H. Van Ness

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

Description

This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance. Spiritual discipline is especially effective at combatting Pascalian diversion, the pursuit of activities that occupy the mind just enough to avoid thinking about important things; and Nietzschean decadence, the proclivity for extirpating instinctive drives instead of satisfying or sublimating them. In addition to overcoming diversion and decadence in contemporary consumerist culture, VanNess recommends spiritual discipline as a means of political resistance to powerful institutions which seek to exercise social control in democratic societies by promulgating addictive patterns of consumption. Finally, he argues that regimens of spiritual discipline can serve healthful and liberating purposes, and generally promote fullness of life, only insofar as they are shaped by an ethos of intellectual criticism and aesthetic experimentation.

How long is Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence?

Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence by Peter H. Van Ness is 364 pages long, and a total of 92,456 words.

This makes it 123% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 25 minutes to read Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence aloud.

What Reading Level is Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence?

Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence 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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