How long does it take to read The Fall of Public Man?
The Fall of Public Man by Richard Sennett takes about 7 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1977. 408 pages, about 112,200 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author. A sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the causes of our declining involvement in political life. Richard Sennett’s insights into the danger of the cult of individualism remain thoroughly relevant to our world today. In a new epilogue, he extends his analysis to the new “public” realm of social media, questioning how public culture has fared since the digital revolution.
Subjects: Histoire sociale, Mœurs et coutumes, Aliénation (Psychologie sociale), Communes (Contre-culture), Interaction sociale, Community life
