How Long to Read The Perils of the One

How Long Does it Take to Read The Perils of the One?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read The Perils of the One by Stathis Gourgouris

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

Description

From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler, a transcendental deity, or an Event, which they embrace with unquestioned devotion. Such obsessions precipitate contempt for the worldliness of real bodies in real time and refusal of responsibility and agency. In The Perils of the One, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of “monarchical thinking”: the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political, moral, theological, or secular. In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, intellectual and passionate, Gourgouris reads across politics and theology, literary and art criticism, psychoanalysis and feminism in a critique of both political theology and the metaphysics of secularism. He engages with a range of figures from the Apostle Paul and Trinitarian theologians, to La Boétie, Schmitt, and Freud, to contemporary thinkers such as Clastres, Said, Castoriadis, Žižek, Butler, and Irigaray. At once a broad perspective on human history and a detailed examination of our present moment, The Perils of the One offers glimpses of what a counterpolitics of autonomy would look like from anarchic subjectivities that refuse external ideals, resist the allure of command and obedience, and embrace otherness.

How long is The Perils of the One?

The Perils of the One by Stathis Gourgouris is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Perils of the One Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read The Perils of the One aloud.

What Reading Level is The Perils of the One?

The Perils of the One 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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