Quotes by Lehman, David

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they c >>

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having >>

There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihila >>

Quotations about Jargon

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly >>

Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills o >>

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.

Lehman, David