How long does it take to read The Passion of the Western Mind?
The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas takes about 9 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 544 pages, about 149,600 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ten years in the making and already receiving wide critica acclaim, The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new inquiry into the evolution of our culture's consciousness, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. This is the epic sstory of our intellectual and spiritual heritage, a story never before told with such breadth of focus and clarity of insight.
Subjects: Civilization, Western, Consciousness, Religion and science, Philosophy, Western Civilization, History
