How long does it take to read This Is Not a Pipe?
This Is Not a Pipe by Michel Foucault takes about 1 hour 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1983. 89 pages, about 24,475 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.
Subjects: surrealism, philosophy, History Of Art / Art & Design Styles, Painting & paintings, History & Surveys - Modern, Art & Art Instruction
