The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought

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A unique work of referenee and a companion to all fields of modern thought. How often are attempts to broaden your knowledge of modern thought frustrated by terms and allusions that you do not understand? Structuralism, operant'conditioning, generative grammar, historical materialism, vorticism, pedology, situation ethics, oligopoly-what do these terms mean and in what context are they used? What was the Bauhaus and why was it important? What is the difference between a shame culture and a guilt culture, hardware and software, collage and décollage, the Frankfurt School, the Chicago School and the Prague ^ School? Do beat, creep, black hole, gate and model mean what you think they do? Can you really define feedback, charisma, cybernetics, peer group, axiomatics, double helix? In an age of specialization, no one can honestly claim a knowledge of the whole vocabulary of modern thought; yet most people would like to understand more. The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought is uniquely... Tovább

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A unique work of referenee and a companion to all fields of modern thought. How often are attempts to broaden your knowledge of modern thought frustrated by terms and allusions that you do not understand? Structuralism, operant'conditioning, generative grammar, historical materialism, vorticism, pedology, situation ethics, oligopoly-what do these terms mean and in what context are they used? What was the Bauhaus and why was it important? What is the difference between a shame culture and a guilt culture, hardware and software, collage and décollage, the Frankfurt School, the Chicago School and the Prague ^ School? Do beat, creep, black hole, gate and model mean what you think they do? Can you really define feedback, charisma, cybernetics, peer group, axiomatics, double helix? In an age of specialization, no one can honestly claim a knowledge of the whole vocabulary of modern thought; yet most people would like to understand more. The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought is uniquely capable of helping them do this. More discursive than an ordinary dictionary, more compact than an encyclopaedia, more selective than either, it contains somé AQOO entries, written in clear language by 140 distinguished contributors, covering the whole rangé of twentieth-century thought in the humanities and sciences. Fields of study, movements, schools, theories, -isms and -ologies of every kind, concepts, technical terms, historical events and the places associated with them, names and organizations-all these are represented; and for those who want to pursue their enquiry further, there are numerous cross-references and carefully selected readinglists. The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought is indispensable as a referenee book, irresistible for browsing through - practically an education in itself. The editors: ALAN BULLOCK is Master of St Catherine's College and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of books on twentieth-century history (including Hitler: a Study in Tyranny) and Chairman of the Government Committee which produced the recent report on industrial democracy. OLIVÉR STALLYBRASS is currently editing the Abinger Edition of the works of E.M. Forster for King's College, Cambridge. Consultant editors: Wilfred Beckerman, Dániel Bell, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Jerome Bruner, Leopold Labedz, Róbert Lekachman, Sir Peter Medawar, John Willett.JohnZiman. Vissza