How Long to Read The Afterlife of Moses

How Long Does it Take to Read The Afterlife of Moses?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read The Afterlife of Moses by Michael Steinberg

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

Description

In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics—of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its critical and self-critical power. These literal returns form the first level of the afterlife of Moses. They spin a persistent critical and self-critical thread of European and transatlantic art and argument. And they enable the second strand of Steinberg's argument, namely the depersonalization of the Moses and Exodus story, its evolving abstraction and modulation into a varied modern history of political beginnings. Beginnings, as distinct from origins, are human and historical, writes Steinberg. Political constitutions, as a form of beginning, imply the eventuality of their own renewals and their own reconstitutions. Motivated in part by recent reactionary insurgencies in the US, Europe, and Israel, this astute work of intellectual history posits the critique of myths of origin as a key principle of democratic government, affect, and citizenship, of their endurance as well as their fragility.

How long is The Afterlife of Moses?

The Afterlife of Moses by Michael Steinberg is 281 pages long, and a total of 70,531 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Afterlife of Moses Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 25 minutes to read The Afterlife of Moses aloud.

What Reading Level is The Afterlife of Moses?

The Afterlife of Moses 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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