How long does it take to read Les Mots et les Choses?
Une archéologie des sciences humaines
Les Mots et les Choses by Michel Foucault takes about 7 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 6 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 387 pages, about 106,425 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When one defines 'order' as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear what Foucault is doing here. He weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology.
Subjects: Civilization, History, Learning and scholarship, Postmodernism, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy, french
