Senses of the Subject by Judith Butler
Published 2015 · 62,700 words · about 4 hours at an average pace
How hard is Senses of the Subject to read?
Senses of the Subject scores 76 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 82 out of 100
- Full philosophical apparatus, unglossed.
- Sentence structure: 82 out of 100
- Very long, heavily qualified sentences.
- Abstraction: 90 out of 100
- Among her most abstract books — the subject's formation as such.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Dense readings of Descartes, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon and others.
How Senses of the Subject is regarded
Senses of the Subject holds a literary regard score of 57 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.