A Cultural History Translated from the German by Ray Cunningham

摘要

A scene from Lewis Carroll's children's classic Through the Looking Glass describes the mechanism of semantic power games of all kinds. 'When /use a word', Humpty Dumpty said..., 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is', said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.' "The question is', said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all'.