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Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy: Audiobook

by Rene Descartes · narrated by D.E. Wittkower · unabridged · 2016

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Meditations on First Philosophy audiobook runs 3.5 hours unabridged, narrated by D.E. Wittkower (about 2.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

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Non-Fictionstore shelf
2016released
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What our data says

  • At 3.5 hours, it is shorter than 75% of the 39,028 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by D.E. Wittkower

D.E. Wittkower narrates 13 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 32 hours in all.

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About as long, on the Non-Fiction shelf

1,880 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2009 recording read by Paul Hecht runs 0.1 hours shorter (3.4 hours).

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Meditations on First Philosophy is an audiobook by Rene Descartes: a 3.5-hour unabridged recording, read by D.E. Wittkower, released January 1, 2016, on the Non-Fiction shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
3.5 hrs
Narrated by
D.E. Wittkower
Released
January 1, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Non-Fiction

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Meditations on First Philosophy audiobook?

Meditations on First Philosophy runs 3.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.3 hours.

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Who narrates Meditations on First Philosophy?

Meditations on First Philosophy is narrated by D.E. Wittkower.