What World Is This? by Judith Butler
Published 2022 · 39,600 words · about 3 hours at an average pace
How hard is What World Is This? to read?
What World Is This? scores 67 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
- Philosophical vocabulary, unglossed.
- Sentence structure: 70 out of 100
- Long, qualified sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- A short book almost entirely about ontology and obligation.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Compressed; Scheler and Merleau-Ponty read closely.
How What World Is This? is regarded
What World Is This? holds a literary regard score of 53 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.