Bluffworld

Bluffworld
Author :
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Total Pages : 367
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781776564552
ISBN-13 : 1776564553
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bluffworld by : Patrick Evans

Download or read book Bluffworld written by Patrick Evans and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: &‘Zum Bullshitter geht der Preis' &– so said the great German author-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774). Or did he? Can we trust what we never quite knew about because we never quite got around to reading it in the first place? Is it safe to rely on what we overhear in the university common-room or even out there in the real world? And does it matter? In Bluffworld we are taken through the bildung of a master-bluffer, from his early days spent plagiarising student essays to his magisterial later lectures on the opening sentence of Moby-Dick and other works he's been led to believe might well be great literature, whatever that is. We learn to spot the difference between bullshit and horseshit, to understand the power of seeming, to use &‘Quite' and &‘Just so' to trigger verbal smokescreens when outflanked, to sense the sublime power of unoriginality all around us. Finally, we see the inevitable terminus ad quem (whatever that means) of the Meister-Bullshit-K&ünstler(?), as our hero confronts the apotheosis of bullshit in the bewildering word-world of the corporate university. All this and much, much less! Time for another all-staff barbecue!


Bluffworld Related Books

Bluffworld
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Patrick Evans
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-01 - Publisher: Victoria University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

&‘Zum Bullshitter geht der Preis' &– so said the great German author-philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774). Or did
100 Thing To See On Australia's Coral Coast
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Exploring Eden Books
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-02-01 - Publisher: Exploring Eden Media Pty Ltd

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

100 Things To See On Australia's Coral Coast expands the ever-popular range of 100 Things To See travel guides, dedicated to Australia's most incredible regions
Ford Madox Ford: A Dual Life
Language: en
Pages: 722
Authors: Max Saunders
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The second volume of Max Saunders's magisterial biography sees the publication of Ford's post-war masterpiece, Parade's End, and the founding of the Transatlant
Women on the March
Language: en
Pages: 968
Authors:
Categories: Women
Type: BOOK - Published: 1971 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Mobil Travel Guide
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors:
Categories: Southern States
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK