How long does it take to read Truth and Method?
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer takes about 10 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1960. 553 pages, about 152,075 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others"--
Subjects: Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, Humanities, Methodology, Modern Philosophy, Sciences humaines
