How Long to Read Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject

How Long Does it Take to Read Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject by John L. Roberts

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

Description

Recent scholarship has inquired into the socio-historical, discursive genesis of trauma. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject, however, seeks what has not been actualized in trauma studies – that is, how the necessity and unassailable intensity of trauma is fastened to its historical emergence. We must ask not only what trauma means for the individual person’s biography, but also what it means to be the historical subject of trauma. In other words, how does being human in this current period of history implicate one’s lived possibilities that are threatened, and perhaps framed, through trauma? Foucauldian sensibilities inform a critical and structural analysis that is hermeneutically grounded. Drawing on the history of ideas and on Lacan’s work in particular, John L. Roberts argues that what we mean by trauma has developed over time, and that it is intimately tied with an ontology of the subject; that is to say, what it is to be, and means to be human. He argues that modern subjectivity – as articulated by Heidegger, Levinas, and Lacan – is structurally traumatic, founded in its finitude as self-withdrawal in time, its temporal self-absence becoming the very conditions for agency, truth and knowledge. The book also argues that this fractured temporal horizon – as an effect of an interrupting Otherness or alterity – is obscured through the discourses and technologies of the psy-disciplines (psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy). Consideration is given to social, political, and economic consequences of this concealment. Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject will be of enduring interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists as well as scholars of philosophy and cultural studies.

How long is Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject?

Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject by John L. Roberts is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject aloud.

What Reading Level is Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject?

Trauma and the Ontology of the Modern Subject is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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