The War of Words
A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth-century terms that are hobbling current political debates.Nationalism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and capitalism are among…
Specifikacia The War of Words
A timely call for recovering the true meanings of the nineteenth-century terms that are hobbling current political debates.Nationalism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and capitalism are among the most fiercely debated ideas in contemporary politics. Since these concepts hark back to the nineteenth century, much of their nuanced meaning has been lost, and the words are most often used as epithets that short-circuit productive discussion. In this insightful book, Harold James uncovers the origins of these concepts and examines how the problematic definition and meaning of each t