Political Keywords A Guide for Students, Activists, and Everyone Else [Hardcover]

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

Introduction.

Political Keywords A–Z.

Glossary

“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.”
Edward S. Herman, co-author (with Noam Chomsky) of Manufacturing Consent, and author of Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda

“Learned and lucid, impiously defiant of the academic church, this syllabus of heresies is a lils{