How Long to Read Trials of Nature

How Long Does it Take to Read Trials of Nature?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 30 minutes to read Trials of Nature by Björn Quiring

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

Description

Focusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In an enormous variety of texts, from the Greek beginnings of Western literature onward, nature has been described as a courtroom in which an all- encompassing trial takes place and a universal verdict is executed. The first, introductory part of this study sketches an overview of the metaphor’s development in European history, from antiquity to the seventeenth century. In its second, more extensive part, the book concentrates on Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in which the problem of the natural law court finds one of its most fascinating and detailed articulations. Using conceptual tools provided by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Hans Blumenberg, Gilles Deleuze, William Empson and Alfred North Whitehead, the study demonstrates that the conflicts in Milton’s epic revolve around the tension between a universal legal procedure inherent in nature and the positive legal decrees of the deity. The divine rule is found to consolidate itself by Nature’s supplementary shadow government; their inconsistencies are not flaws, but rather fundamental rhetorical assets, supporting a law that is inherently "double- formed". In Milton’s world, human beings are thus confronted with a twofold law that entraps them in its endlessly proliferating double binds, whether they obey or not. The analysis of this strange juridical structure can open up new perspectives on Milton’s epic, as well as on the way legal discourse tends to entangle norms with facts and thus to embed itself in human life. This original and intriguing book will appeal not only to those engaged in the study of Milton, but also to anyone interested in the relationship between law, history, literature and philosophy.

How long is Trials of Nature?

Trials of Nature by Björn Quiring is 570 pages long, and a total of 142,500 words.

This makes it 192% the length of the average book. It also has 174% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Trials of Nature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 58 minutes to read Trials of Nature aloud.

What Reading Level is Trials of Nature?

Trials of Nature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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