“Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.” IfsGivingIdeasHandsSeemsEasySidesLinesAirSeriousHatsSuperficialNoveltyScholarshipFashionableYour SideStaleBlurFrivolousJargonProfunditySleight Of Hand Book:Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man Source: Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man
“There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.” LastsAirActivityCriticismAnnihilationGuiseBrooding Book:Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man Source: Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man
