The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense
ISBN: 9780285637146
作者: Ophelia Benson/Jeremy Stangroom
出版社: Independent Pub Group
出版年: 2006-10
页数: 96
定价: $ 11.24
装帧: HRD
内容简介
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.