Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Žižek
Published 2011 · 90,750 words · about 13 hours at an average pace
How hard is Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left to read?
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left scores 80 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
- Three separate theoretical vocabularies in one book.
- Sentence structure: 82 out of 100
- Very long, heavily qualified sentences.
- Abstraction: 92 out of 100
- Universality and hegemony argued at the highest abstraction.
- Information density: 85 out of 100
- Three rounds of exchange, each dense with reference.
How Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left is regarded
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left holds a literary regard score of 59 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.