How long does it take to read Philosophical Investigations?
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 250 pages, about 68,750 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Posthumously published work by Wittgenstein, in which he came to overthrow some number of his earlier ideas as published in the Tractatus.
Subjects: German Philosophy, Langage et langues, Modern Philosophy, Philosophie, Philosophie der normalen Sprache, Philosophy
