It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Walter Benjamin by Gershom Scholem
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century’s most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship—which was to remain crucial for both men—is both a celebration of his friend’s spellbinding genius and a lament for the personal and intellectual self-destructiveness that culminated in Benjamin’s suicide in 1940. At once...
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Scholem is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Walter Benjamin aloud.
Walter Benjamin is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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