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Review title: Academic obscurantism of the worst kind
Product review: There may be a few good ideas buried somewhere in this book, but it is written in such impenetrable, obscurantist, often laughably absurd, postmodern jargon that these ideas are near impossible to unearth.If you enjoy reading chapter after chapter of sentences such as "Sociality is the very existentiality of historicity" (p.60), then you'll probably enjoy it... but even those with a decent understanding of their Lacan, Lyotard et al will find this work frustratingly and unnecessarily convoluted.Haver may be trying to give the impression that the complexity of his language matches the complexity of the problem, but he ends up being utterly incomprehensible. It is saddening to think that many areas of the humanities have become so intellectually inbred and deliberately detached from the rest of the world.
