It takes the average reader 3 hours and 45 minutes to read The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences by Ian Shapiro
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In this captivating yet troubling book, Ian Shapiro offers a searing indictment of many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities today. Perhaps best known for his critique of rational choice theory, Shapiro expands his purview here. In discipline after discipline, he argues, scholars have fallen prey to inward-looking myopia that results from--and perpetuates--a flight from reality. In the method-driven academic culture we inhabit, argues Shapiro, researchers too often make display and refinement of their techniques the principal scholarly activity. The result is that they...
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences by Ian Shapiro is 223 pages long, and a total of 56,419 words.
This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 69% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences aloud.
The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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