How Long to Read Why Truth Matters

How Long Does it Take to Read Why Truth Matters?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 37 minutes to read Why Truth Matters by Jeremy Stangroom

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

Description

Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in allits forms and traditions. Yet in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to assortedpolitical and ideological agendas, along with the rise of relativism, postmodernism and pseudoscience in academia, led to a decline both of truth as a serious subject, and an intellectual tradition thatbegan with the Enlightenment. Why Truth Matters is a timely, incisive and entertaining look at how and why modern thought and culture lost sight of the importance of truth. It is also an eloquent and inspiring argument for restoring truth to its rightful place. Jeremy Stangroom and Ophelia Benson, editors of the successful butterfliesandwheels website-itself established to "fight fashionable nonsense"-identify and debunk such senselessness, and the spurious claims made for it, in all its forms. Their account ranges over religious fundamentalism, Holocaust denial, the challenges of postmodernism and deconstruction, the wilful misinterpretation of evolutionary biology, identity politics and wishful thinking. Why Truth Matters is both a rallying cry for the enlightened vision and an essential read for anyone who's everbeen bored, frustrated, bewildered or plain enraged by the worst excesses of the fashionable intelligentsia.

How long is Why Truth Matters?

Why Truth Matters by Jeremy Stangroom is 214 pages long, and a total of 54,356 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Why Truth Matters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 57 minutes to read Why Truth Matters aloud.

What Reading Level is Why Truth Matters?

Why Truth Matters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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