Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions by Martha C. Nussbaum
Published 2012 · 210,650 words · about 25 hours at an average pace
How hard is Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions to read?
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions scores 73 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: 75 out of 100
- Philosophical vocabulary across ethics, psychology and classics.
- Sentence structure: 78 out of 100
- Long, heavily qualified academic sentences over seven hundred pages.
- Abstraction: 88 out of 100
- A full theory of the emotions, argued abstractly.
- Information density: 85 out of 100
- Extremely dense; philosophy, music, literature and psychology together.
How Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions is regarded
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions holds a literary regard score of 68 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.