How long does it take to read Existentialists and Mystics?
Writings on Philosophy and Literature
Existentialists and Mystics by Iris Murdoch takes about 10 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 23 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1993. 566 pages, about 155,650 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the thought and writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior, and Elias Canetti, as well as key texts on the continuing importance of the sublime, on the concept of love, and the role great literature can play in curing the ills of philosophy. Existentialists and Mystics not only illuminates the mysticism and intellectual underpinnings of Murdoch's novels, but confirms her major contributions to twentieth-century thought.
Subjects: Criticism, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Art criticism, Existentialism, British Philosophy
