The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense: A Guide for Edgy People - Rilegato

Benson, Ophelia; Stangroom, Jeremy

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ISBN 10: 0285637142 ISBN 13: 9780285637146

Casa editrice: Souvenir Pr Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

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 ever trapped at a party with a crowd of trendy academics.

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L'autore:

Ophelia Benson runs an online cultural forum at www.butterfliesandwheels.com. She lives in Seattle. Jeremy Stangroom is the editor of The Philosopher's Magazine and a coeditor of What Philosophers Think. They are the coauthors of Why Truth Matters.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Souvenir Pr Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0285637142
• ISBN 13: 9780285637146
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 128