It takes the average reader 2 hours and 55 minutes to read The Panopticon Writings by Jeremy Bentham
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham’s own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham’s Panopticon. The Panopticon is not merely, as Foucault thought, “a cruel, ingenious cage”, in which subjects...
The Panopticon Writings by Jeremy Bentham is 169 pages long, and a total of 43,771 words.
This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 59 minutes to read The Panopticon Writings aloud.
The Panopticon Writings is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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