It takes the average reader 3 hours and 31 minutes to read The Tragic Middle by Richard E. Goodkin
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The Tragic Middle links the philosophical texts of Aristotle with the tragic dramas of Racine and Euripides to show that tragic heroism results from a conflict between two ways of approaching a problem: a practical, ethical approach based on compromise and middle ground (Aristotle's "golden mean"), and a theoretical approach that rejects ambivalence and admits only mutually exclusive solutions (the law of the "excluded middle," found in Aristotle's Metaphysics). Richard Goodkin asserts that the tension between Aristotle's two precepts is eminently tragic and is crucial to the theater of...
The Tragic Middle by Richard E. Goodkin is 211 pages long, and a total of 52,961 words.
This makes it 71% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 49 minutes to read The Tragic Middle aloud.
The Tragic Middle is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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