From chauvinism to chiliasm, from epicureanism to existentialism, and from nationalism to nominalism, we live in a wilderness of dogmas and doctrines, creeds and credos. But what do all these -isms mean? Help is now at hand in the small but perfectly formed shape of Isms and Ologies. If you want to lend a veneer of intellectual rigour to your small talk Isms and Ologies could be just the book you are looking for.
