But philosophy doesn't tend to layer so deep as to require especially complex jargon. You need to know some of the field-specific ideas (signifier/signified for semiotics for example) but these are intuitive concepts that relate to daily life, not hyper-specialised concepts like what you'd find in chemistry or physics.
Given how many people get upset by even the term "postmodernism", I think it's a worthy exercise to make the concepts more accessible so that less people think it's an exercise in trying to destroy the philosophical foundations of the West, and more an exercise in trying to understand the reality we live in.
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But philosophy doesn't tend to layer so deep as to require especially complex jargon. You need to know some of the field-specific ideas (signifier/signified for semiotics for example) but these are intuitive concepts that relate to daily life, not hyper-specialised concepts like what you'd find in chemistry or physics.
Given how many people get upset by even the term "postmodernism", I think it's a worthy exercise to make the concepts more accessible so that less people think it's an exercise in trying to destroy the philosophical foundations of the West, and more an exercise in trying to understand the reality we live in.