How long does it take to read The Life of the Mind?
The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt takes about 5 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1977. 283 pages, about 77,825 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Philosophy, Collected works, Will, Thought and thinking, Liberty, Denken
