How long does it take to read The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity?
twelve lectures
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jürgen Habermas takes about 7 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 430 pages, about 118,250 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A series of twelve lectures on Modern and Post Modern thinkers ranging from Hegel who critiqued subjective reason and sought to replace it with Absolute Knowledge to Nietsche who proclaimed the death of philosophy and on to thinkers like Habermas who believed that art might possess the capability of uniting our fragmented reasoning ability and finally to post modern thinkers like Bataille, Focault and Derrida
Subjects: Civilization, Modern, Modern Civilization, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy, Modern, Postmodernism
