How Long to Read The Secret History of Emotion

How Long Does it Take to Read The Secret History of Emotion?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 29 minutes to read The Secret History of Emotion by Daniel M. Gross

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

Description

Princess Diana’s death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe; the death of a homeless person, more often than not, is met with apathy. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Uncovering a rich tradition beginning with Aristotle, The Secret History of Emotion offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions today. Through a radical rereading of Aristotle, Seneca, Thomas Hobbes, Sarah Fielding, and Judith Butler, among others, Daniel M. Gross reveals a persistent intellectual current that considers emotions as psychosocial phenomena. In Gross’s historical analysis of emotion, Aristotle and Hobbes’s rhetoric show that our passions do not stem from some inherent, universal nature of men and women, but rather are conditioned by power relations and social hierarchies. He follows up with consideration of how political passions are distributed to some people but not to others using the Roman Stoics as a guide. Hume and contemporary theorists like Judith Butler, meanwhile, explain to us how psyches are shaped by power. To supplement his argument, Gross also provides a history and critique of the dominant modern view of emotions, expressed in Darwinism and neurobiology, in which they are considered organic, personal feelings independent of social circumstances. The result is a convincing work that rescues the study of the passions from science and returns it to the humanities and the art of rhetoric.

How long is The Secret History of Emotion?

The Secret History of Emotion by Daniel M. Gross is 205 pages long, and a total of 52,275 words.

This makes it 69% the length of the average book. It also has 64% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Secret History of Emotion Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 45 minutes to read The Secret History of Emotion aloud.

What Reading Level is The Secret History of Emotion?

The Secret History of Emotion 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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