Description: From nature to cultural appropriation, and from black to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of these and other important words in the English language, helping us to better understand our contemporary world.
Review Quotes: "As ever more writing becomes minimalist and abbreviated, emphatically discouraging any extended dwelling on conceptual ambiguities -- a world of words with no histories -- the new keywords project arguably has become all the more urgent." -- David Simpson, Distinguished Professor and G. B. Needham Chair of English Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, Modern Language Quarterly
"This is a valuable update of this important, longstanding resource." -- S.L. Johnson, CHOICE"This is a Keywords for our time--a fascinating, intricately erudite work of conceptual genealogy that reveals the interwoven logics of past and present. With grace and precision, the authors have produced an invaluable guidebook to the perilous landscapes of culture and society. Raymond Williams would have been proud." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University