Richard Osborne
Megawords
200 Terms You Really Need to Know
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`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 and citizenship.Osborne writes with wit, wisdom, and insight, always wary of any approach becoming an orthodoxy. He shows how parti…
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`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 and citizenship.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' - John Docker, author of Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural HistoryWritten by the author of the international bestseller Philosophy for Beginners, Megawords provides definitions for the key terms every student in the humanities and social sciences needs to know.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4462-6526-0
- EAN: 9781446265260
- Produktnummer: 18427032
- Verlag: SAGE Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'004 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Richard Osborne is senior lecturer in philosophy, semiotics and cultural studies at Camberwell College of Art, London
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