The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century by Nikolas Rose
Published 2007 · 96,800 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century to read?
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century scores 68 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
- Dense sociological and biomedical vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 70 out of 100
- Long academic sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Sustained theoretical argument about biopolitics.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Heavy with literature and case material.
How The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century is regarded
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century 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.