Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense A Guide for Edgy People

Name: Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense A Guide for Edgy People
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ISBN: 9780285637146

ISBN-10: 0285637142

ISBN-13: 9780285637146

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom

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Two of Britain's leading cultural commentators provide a hilarious guide to the various trendy discourses that academics have churned out for decades. Covering such schools of thought as difference feminism, deconstruction, and the sociology of knowledge, the author reveals that clotted jargon, tortured syntax, and unreadable style hides the fact that nothing new is being said. This ironic guide offers an array of ludicrous, exaggerated, self-contradicting definitions and explanations of popular intellectual jargon, poking witty fun at postmodern theorists from Adorno to Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, and arming the reader with enough knowledge to salt them into the conversation if…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Souvenir Press Limited
Publication date: 10/28/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 96
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.05" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English