How Long to Read Transformative Change in Western Thought

How Long Does it Take to Read Transformative Change in Western Thought?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 18 minutes to read Transformative Change in Western Thought by Ingo Gildenhard

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

Description

This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka's Fly and toSpiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history.

How long is Transformative Change in Western Thought?

Transformative Change in Western Thought by Ingo Gildenhard is 539 pages long, and a total of 139,601 words.

This makes it 182% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Transformative Change in Western Thought Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 42 minutes to read Transformative Change in Western Thought aloud.

What Reading Level is Transformative Change in Western Thought?

Transformative Change in Western Thought is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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