Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense : A Guide for Edgy People

For decades academics in many universities have been churning out fashionable nonsense, creating entirely new academic disciplines such as difference feminism, deconstructionism, the sociology of knowledge.

Common to all is clotted jargon, tortured syntax and an unreadable style hiding the fact that these writers are not actually saying anything.

In The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense two of Britain's leading cultural commentators provide a handy, accessible guide to the various trendy "discourses" that have steadily eroded our culture's foundation of reason.