How long does it take to read The Portable Enlightenment Reader?
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Various, Isaac Kramnick takes about 12 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1995. 670 pages, about 184,250 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Age of Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an exultant intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire capitalism. This volume brings together the era's classic works, with more than a hundred selections from a broad range of sources—including works by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine—that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions. Included are seminal discourses on science and religion, on the social contract, on the equality (and inequality)...
Subjects: Essays, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Enlightenment, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy, modern
