Political Keywords: A Guide for Students, Activists, and Everyone Else - Hardcover

Levine, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405150645 ISBN 13: 9781405150644

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

Written by renowned political philosopher Andrew Levine, Political Keywords guides readers through today’s most commonly used- and misused- political terminology.

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• A much-needed dictionary of contemporary political vernacular from “alienation” to “Zionism”
  
• Defines the most important political keywords, i.e. the often-confusing (and sometimes intentionally misleading) terms that are used to describe our politics
  
• Refamiliarizes the reader with today’s most commonly used and misused terms, thus clarifying the current political landscape
  
• Assumes no prior academic background in politics
  
• Includes extensive cross-referencing, suggested further readings, and a
  comprehensive glossary
  
• Provides the ideal guide to navigating a landscape of dangerously vague terms

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Levine is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington DC), and Research Professor in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of many books, most recently Rethinking Liberal Equality: From A “Utopian” Point of View (1998), Engaging Political Philosophy: Hobbes to Rawls (Blackwell, 2001), A Future for Marxism? (2003), and The American Ideology (2004).

From the Back Cover

Recent history has seen profound change in the world’s political landscape. With these changes, many formerly secure understandings of political terms have become lost, and the meanings of the words we use to describe our politics have become muddied. Frequently confusing, and often intentionally misleading, this language can be easily distorted in order to spin disputed ideas or justify questionable actions. At the same time, fresh insights about modern politics have been developed that remain little known or discussed outside academic circles. This account of political keywords addresses these circumstances with a view to rectifying them – for the benefit of students, political activists, and a public desperately in need of clarity.

The entries in Political Keywords work together to create a timely dictionary of contemporary political vernacular from 'alienation' to 'Zionism.' Extensive cross-referencing, suggested further readings, and a comprehensive glossary make Political Keywords the ideal guide to navigating a landscape of dangerously vague terms.

The entries in Political Keywords work together to create a timely dictionary of contemporary political vernacular from 'alienation' to 'Zionism.' Extensive cross-referencing, suggested further readings, and a comprehensive glossary make Political Keywords the ideal guide to navigating a landscape of dangerously vague terms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405150645
• ISBN 13: 9781405150644
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308