The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram
Published 1997 · 89,650 words · about 8 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World to read?
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World scores 64 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: 65 out of 100
- Phenomenological vocabulary alongside field description.
- Sentence structure: 65 out of 100
- Long lyrical sentences.
- Abstraction: 82 out of 100
- Perception itself treated philosophically.
- Information density: 68 out of 100
- Dense with philosophy and ethnography together.
How The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World is regarded
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World 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.