Title: Inside jokes
Product review: This is humor for the initiated. If you are familiar with (and scornful of) Theory, postmodernism, deconstruction, Derrida, etc., you'll get the jokes. If you're one of the uninitiated (like me), most of the jabs and puns will be baffling. I did some reading about the targets of the humor, after which many of the entries made more sense. But, as the saying goes, frogs and humor fare poorly upon dissection.You'll understand some of the entries better if you read the authors' other book first, Why Truth Matters. That book also assumes some familiarity with the Theory, but it gives you a much better feel for the basis of the authors' derision.Even if you don't understand all of the entries, you'll be able to chuckle knowingly when you hit on one you understand. It's great to be on the inside.
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