num_pages: 128
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense: A Guide for Edgy People
titlecomplete: The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense: A Guide for Edgy People
genres: Skepticism, Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Souvenir Pr Ltd