The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
Published 2005 · 135,025 words · about 14 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy to read?
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy 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, anthropological and ecological vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 72 out of 100
- Long, dense, sometimes tangled sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Hierarchy itself treated as the object of a general theory.
- Information density: 78 out of 100
- Very dense; prehistory to the present.
How The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy is regarded
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy holds a literary regard score of 64 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.