You might also like

More about Megawords

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 285 loyalty points

Book synopsis

'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 History Written 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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Encyclopaedias & reference works Reference works

• Full title: Megawords
• Subtitle: 200 Terms You Really Need to Know
• Author: Richard Osborne
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780761974734
• ISBN: 0761974733
• ID: 04686700
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Weight: 420 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. December 2001

Trending among others

---

---

---