How Long to Read The Communism of Theory

How Long Does it Take to Read The Communism of Theory?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read The Communism of Theory by Martin McQuillan

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

Description

One of the notable trends within contemporary critical theory is the re-emergence of communism as a political proposition during a time of global financial crisis. This takes the form of explicit attempts to reformulate a communist project (Badiou), readings of a communist tradition (Žižek), and a reimagining of a communist inheritance (Rancière, Balibar). Within the field of critical theory these positions have tended to pass relatively unchallenged as other theoretical idioms (psychoanalysis, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism) have been occupied in the last few years with archival and micro-level analysis. The poverty of the Speculative turn in object-oriented philosophy has also allowed the contemporary discourse on communism to run unquestioned. Through a series of readings of Derrida, Marx, de Man, fiction, film and contemporary politics this book problematizes the idea of political articulation within the public realm with a view to interrogating and enriching the dominant notion of communism at work in theoretical writing today. It sees in theory a difficult yet essential gesture that ties the questioning of truth to a necessary undecidability that guarantees that truth and its relation to democratic engagement. The Communism of Theory is a riff on a phrase used by Blanchot to describe the curious social bond, means of affiliation and thought, that characterizes writing as testimony within a displaced community of critical readers. This book responds to key topics in contemporary thought and also turns the text of deconstruction in a direction that provokes a challenge to its own traditions.

How long is The Communism of Theory?

The Communism of Theory by Martin McQuillan is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Communism of Theory Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read The Communism of Theory aloud.

What Reading Level is The Communism of Theory?

The Communism of Theory is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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