Political Keywords: A Guide for Students, Activists, and Everyone Else
Andrew Levine
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Description for Political Keywords: A Guide for Students, Activists, and Everyone Else
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Written by renowned political philosopher Andrew Levine, Political Keywords guides readers through today’s most commonly used- and misused- political terminology.
Written by renowned political philosopher Andrew Levine, Political Keywords guides readers through today’s most commonly used- and misused- political terminology.
- 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405150651
SKU
V9781405150651
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Andrew Levine
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Political Keywords: A Guide for Students, Activists, and Everyone Else
“Andrew Levine’s Keywords is at the same time a political dictionary, a course on political philosophy, and an analysis of the current political scene and prospects. It is also extremely readable, its abundant learning lightened by Levine’s openness and wit, all helping to make Keywords accessible to a wide range of people interested in politics, propaganda, and the human prospect.” ... Read more