The Economist Book of isms: From Abolitionism to Zoroastrianism / John Andrews

"Isms" help to inform us, educate us and sometimes even amuse us. What would life be like without altrusim or cynicism, dogmatism or optimism? Below are just some of the "isms" explained in this collection of more than 400.

• Absolutism
• Albigensianism
• Aphorism
• Atavism
• Behaviouralism
• Bolshevism
• Buddhism
• Butskellism
• Calvinism
• Capitalism
• Communism
• Confucianism
• Dadaism
• Deontologism
• Dystopianism
• Eclecticism
• Empiricism
• Euphemism
• Existentialism
• Fascism
• Fauvism
• Fourierism
• Frotteurism
• Gaullism
• Geophagism
• Globalism
• Gnosticism
• Hedonism
• Hermeticism
• Hypopituitarism
• Idealism
• Ignosticism
• Irredentism
• Isomorphism
• Jansenism
• Jingoism
• Journalism
• Judaism
• Kabbalism
• Keynesianism
• Know-nothingism
• Lacanianism
• Leninism
• Lollardism
• Malthusianism
• Manichaeism
• Maoism
• Marxism
• Masochism
• Narcissism
• Neologism
• Nestorianism
• Obscurantism
• Onanism
• Orphism
• Ostracism
• Paganism
• Phallocentrism
• Poststructuralism
• Quakerism
• Quietism
• Quixotism
• Racism
• Reaganism
• Reductionism
• Romanticism
• Sacerdotalism
• Sadism
• Sapphism
• Solipsism
• Stoicism
• Sufism
• Tantrism
• Taoism
• Thatcherism
• Transvestism
• Trotskyism
• Ultramontanism
• Unilateralism
• Utilitarianism
• Utopianism
• Valetudinarianism
• Vorticism
• Voyeurism
• Wahhabism
• Zeism
• Zionism
• Zoomorphism

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