Words and Worlds

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Born in a time of anxiety, <I>Words and Worlds</I> examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from <I>democracy</I> and <I>revolution </I>to <I>knowledge </I>and <I>authority</I>, from <I>inequality </I>and <I>toleration </I>to <I>war </I>and <I>power</I>, the contributors to this book trouble the self-evidence of these terms, bringing into view the hidden transcripts and unexpected trajectories of many settled ideas, such as the human sense of belonging or the call for openness and transparency in research and public life. The case studies conducted over five continents with the tools of eight different disciplines challenge the ethnocentric assumptions, false moralism, and cultural prejudices that underlie much discussion on corruption or even the virtue invested in resilience. The critique of the ubiquitous use of <I>crisis </I>to characterize our times shows how this framing obscures