Two of Britain's leading cultural commentators provide ahilarious guide to the various trendy discourses that academics have churned out for decades. Covering such schools of thoughtasdifference 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 ...
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Two of Britain's leading cultural commentators provide ahilarious guide to the various trendy discourses that academics have churned out for decades. Covering such schools of thoughtasdifference 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 Derridaand Michel Foucault, and armingthe reader withenough knowledge tosalt them intothe conversation if ever trapped at a party with a crowd of trendy academics."
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