![]() ![]() ![]() The virtue is unadorned: A ‘Very Short Introduction’ contains all you need to know in order to decide if you need to know more. The first ‘Very Short Introduction’ appeared in the mid-1990s, and now there are nearly 300 books, which have sold over three million copies, and been translated into over twenty-five languages. However, the titles in the OUP series, which is the subject of this review, are smaller, shorter and more succinct, but no less expert and vital. These are substantial introductory texts. Routledge’s ‘The New Critical Idiom’ surveys developments in cultural and aesthetic theory and thinking. Two series have successfully bridged the gap between academic and trade publishing. To help ease the paths of students, new introductory guides appeared and boundaries of intellectual interest between academics and the intelligentsia began to blur. Cross-disciplinary pollination from philosophy, cultural politicisation, the sciences and empirical information meant that what might previously have been confined to the academy began to appeal to a broader reading public. WESTERN THOUGHT TOOK A meta-intellectual leap in the second half of the century. Oxford University Press | £7.99/$11.95 each ![]()
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