How long does it take to read In Defense of Lost Causes?
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek takes about 9 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 517 pages, about 142,175 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all kinds have been cast in doubt. In this combative new work, renowned theorist Slavoj Žižek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several 'lost causes'.
Subjects: Ideology, Postmodernism, Politische Philosophie, Philosophy, Political science, Capitalism
