In this book, a compilation of a series of articles first published in Hetq between 2010 and 2019, Melkonian dismantles the neoliberal slogans and buzzwords that have dominated public discourse in the Republic of Armenia for decades. At the same time, he introduces a very different vocabulary for describing the passing scene--a more coherent, accurate, and open vocabulary, and one that is indispensable to the voiceless majority in countries like Armenia.

What a load of lunatic Marxist cr*p ... from top to bottom.

--Online Comment

Hit the nail head-on!

--Online Comment

True, honest, intelligent, and too horrible.

--Online Comment

A great, if sad, record of the ravages of the shuga [the market].

--Levon Chorbajian, Prof. of Sociology, University of Massachusetts

About the Author

Markar Melkonian is a teacher and author. His books include Richard Rorty's Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century (Humanities Books, 1999), and two recent college textbooks: The Philosophy of Death Reader: Cross-Cultural Readings on Immortality and the Afterlife (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), and The Philosophy of Common Sense Reader: Writings on Critical Thinking (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). 

In English (Armenian edition forthcoming)

Sardarabad Press, 18 February 2020

ISBN-10:  1949618226

ISBN-13:  978-1949618228

Perfect-bound paperback, 186 pp., $19.95

Available from Abril Bookstore, and Amazon.com.