On Violence by Hannah Arendt
Published 1969 · 30,525 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is On Violence to read?
On Violence scores 69 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. 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: 72 out of 100
- Political-theory vocabulary used with great precision.
- Sentence structure: 75 out of 100
- Long, formal, closely reasoned sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Sustained conceptual work distinguishing power, strength, force and violence.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Dense with argument and with the political history it addresses.
How On Violence is regarded
On Violence holds a literary regard score of 83 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.