Do you know your animus from your anomie? Puzzled by all that jargon at university? Now there's no need to be.
In this book, Richard Osborne takes readers on an exciting journey into the knowledge required to exist, survive and thrive in the new millennium. He takes readers through 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, to older yet still influential terms like enlightenment, empiricism, positivism, aesthetics, agency, nationhood, citizenship.
With wit, wisdom and insight, Osborne shows how particular concepts arise at particular times with particular authors and intellectual personalities. The entries include illuminating examples, engaging anecdotes, subtle cross-referencing, and wide historical contexts.
