The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense: A Guide for Edgy People

by Ophelia Benson, Jeremy Stangroom, George Albert Brown

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0285637142
• ISBN13: 9780285637146
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Souvenir Press
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.1"