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Megawords By Richard Osborne

Megawords by Richard Osborne


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In 1976 Raymond Williams published his classic book Keywords. Richard Osborne presents Megawords a 21st century Keywords. The book is not simply a glossary, rather it is a map of the links between ideas and concept in the humanities, without which no self-respecting student should set sail.

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Megawords: 200 Terms You Really Need to Know by Richard Osborne

`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.

Megawords Reviews

`Osborne writes with wit, wisdom, and insight, always wary of any approach becoming an orthodoxy.... 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

Do you know your animus from your anomie? Puzzled by all that jargon at university? Now there's no need to be...

In 1976 Raymond Williams published his classic book Keywords - which analyzed the genesis of key cultural concepts that were in use at that time. Richard Osborne presents Megawords a 21st century Keywords. The book is not simply a glossary, rather it is a map of the links between ideas and concepts in the humanities and without which no self-respecting student should set sail.

* provides definitions for the key terms every student in the humanities and social sciences needs to know

* is written in an accessible and lucid style

* has huge potential for students across the humanities and `soft' social science subjects

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.

About Richard Osborne

Richard Osborne is senior lecturer in philosophy, semiotics and cultural studies at Camberwell College of Art, London

Table of Contents

Aberrant Decoding Abject/Abjection Activism Aesthetics Agency Agenda Setting Alienation Alterity Androcentric Anima/Animus Anomie Aporia Appropriation Arbitrary Archaeology Archetype Articulation Audience Aura Authenticity/Authentic Author/Authorship Authority Base/Superstructure Behaviourism Bias Binary Oppositions Bisexuality Black/Black Politics Body Bourgeois Brand Bricoleur/Bricolage Bureaucracy Camp Canon Capitalism Carnival Castration Complex Celebrity/Celebrity Culture Chaos Theory Chora Citizenship City Civil Society Civilisation Class Code Collective Unconscious Colonial Subject Colonialism Communication Conflict Theory Connotation/Denotation Conspiracy Theory Consumption Copernican Revolution Counterculture Critical Theory Cult Cultural Capital Cultural Populism Cultural Reproduction Cultural Studies Culturalism Culture Cyberpunk Cyberspace Cyborg Deconstruction Desire Determinism Diaspora Difference Discourse Division of Labour Dominant/Residual/Emergent Doxa Ecology Economic Rationalism Ecriture Feminine Empiricism Encoding/Decoding End of Philosophy Enlightenment Enconce/Enonciation Episteme Epistemology Essentialism Ethics Ethnicity Ethnography Existentialism Fake TV Feedback Feminism Flaneur Flow Fordism Formalism Frankfurt School Functionalism/Structural Functionalism Gaze Geek Gender Genealogy Genotext/Phenotext Globalisation Governmentality Grand Narrative Habitus Hegemony Hermeneutics Hot and Cold Media Humanism Hybridity Hyperreality Icon/Iconic Identity Identity Politics Ideology Image Imperialism Indigeneity Information Age/Information Revolution Intellectuals Interdisciplinarity Interpellation Inter-Textuality Interpretive Communities Irony Jouissance Knowledge Liberli/ism Logocentrism Marginality/Marginalisation Mass Media Materialism Mediascape Message Metanarrative Metaphor/Metonymy Methodology Modernism Moral panic Multiculturalism Myth Nationhood Nature Neo-Liberalism Network Society New Age New Historicism New Man New Times News Values Nomadic Theory Norm Ontology Orientalism Other Paradigm Parapraxis Pastiche Patriarchy Phallocentrism Phenomenology Pleasure Pluralism Political Correctnesss Political Economy of the Media Polysemic Popular Culture Positivism Post-Colonialism Post-Feminism Postmodernism/Postmodernity Poststructuralism Power Psychoanalysis Public/Public Sphere Queer/Queer Theory Race Radical/ism Reader-Response Theory Realism Received Ideas Reductionism Relativism Reflexivity Representation Risk/Risk Society Self Semiotics/Semiology Sign/Signifier Socialism Society Sociobiology Space State Structuralism Subaltern Subcultures Subject/Subjectivity Sustainability Symbol Technological Determinism Terrorism Thatcherism Travelling Theory Unconscious Utilitarianism Utopia/Utopian Virtual Reality Whiteness Writerly/Readerly

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CIN0761974741G
9780761974741
0761974741
Megawords: 200 Terms You Really Need to Know by Richard Osborne
Used - Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20020118
272
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