How long does it take to read Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28)?
Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28) by Alfred North Whitehead takes about 7 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 413 pages, about 113,575 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Process and Reality, Whitehead's magnum opus, is one of the major philosophical works of the modern world, and an extensive body of secondary literature has developed around it. Yet surely no significant philosophical book has appeared in the last two centuries in nearly so deplorable a condition as has this one, with its many hundreds of errors and with over three hundred discrepancies between the American (Macmillan) and the English (Cambridge) editions, which appeared in different formats with divergent paginations. The work itself is highly technical and far from easy to understand, and in many passages the errors in those editions were such as to compound the difficulties. The need for a corrected edition has been keenly felt for many decades.
Subjects: Organism (Philosophy), Kosmologie, Science, Philosophy, Natuurfilosofie, Cosmology
