How long does it take to read The Critique of Pure Reason?
The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant takes about 11 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1781. 613 pages, about 168,575 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 157 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of the central texts of western philosophy and an effort to connect Newtonian physics with the best of Continental rationalism and empiricism. Its writing was inspired by the skeptic David Hume waking Kant from his "dogmatic slumbers."
Subjects: Reason, Causation, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy, History, Sociology of Knowledge
