Megawords

<p>Do you know your animus from your anomie? Puzzled by all that jargon at university? Now there's no need to be.<br><br><i>'Richard Osborne has done something very special here. He takes us on an exciting journey into the knowledge required to exist survive thrive in the new millennium in an interconnected global space that includes cyberpunk and cyborg chaos theory and conspiracy theories the postcolonial and the diaspora hybridity and whiteness the postmodern and the post-feminist the digital and the Net as much as older yet still influential terms like Enlightenment empiricism positivism aesthetics agency nationhood citizenship. <br><br>Osborne writes with wit wisdom and insight always wary of any approach becoming an orthodoxy. He shows how particular concepts arise at particular times with particular authors and intellectual personalities. The entries proceed by illuminating examples engaging anecdotes subtle cross-referencing wide historical contexts.'</i><br><br>John Docker author of <i>Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History</i><br><br>Written by the author of the international bestseller <i>Philosophy for Beginners</i> <i>Megawords</i> provides definitions for the key terms every student in the humanities and social sciences needs to know.</p>