manse (en)

the house occupied by a minister of a Presbyterian church OR an informal way of referring to someone's house

manumission (en)

(noun) the act or process of manumitting / (noun) formal emancipation from slavery

Marktvolk (de)

a neologism coined by Wolfgang Streeck in Buying Time, and defined as "the people of the market"; in contrast to the Staatsvolk, with their diffuse and politically expandable civil rights, Marktvolk have claims on the state that are in principle enforceable before a court of law and come to an end with the fulfilment of the relevant contract

marmoreal (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or suggestive of marble or a marble statue especially in coldness or aloofness

Marquis de Sade (en)

a French aristocrat, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality

Marxian (en)

pertaining to Karl Marx and ideas he explicitly explored in his writings; differs from Marxist in that the latter includes ideas developed by others in the same vein of thought

Marxist (en)

relating to or denoting the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (noun or adj)

massif (en)

(from French for "massive") large mountain mass

master signifier (en)

a Lacanian term (following the linguistics of Saussure); really just another signifier (i.e., something that organises discursive structures) but one which stops the slippage of the signified under the signifier and fixes meaning, thereby forming a stable symbolic order. i don't really know tbh. a platonic ideal of a concept like "freedom" or "health"?

materielle Rationalität (en)

material or substantive rationality (coined by sociologist Max Weber)

mathematical platonism (en)

the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existence is independent of us and our language, thought, and practices

matutinal (en)

(adjective) of, relating to, or occurring in the morning; early

maudlin (en)

(adjective) drunk enough to be emotionally silly / (adjective) weakly and effusively sentimental

maundering (en)

rambling OR meandering

mawkish (en)

(adjective) having an insipid often unpleasant taste / (adjective) sickly or puerilely sentimental

maxillofacial (en)

relating to the jaws and face

mealy (en)

covered with meal or with fine granules

mediated (en)

intervened with, through an intermediary

mediatization (en)

the theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place

meliorism (en)

(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment

melisma (en)

(noun) a group of notes or tones sung on one syllable in plainsong / (noun) melodic embellishment / (noun) cadenza

membra disjecta (la)

scattered fragments

memento mori (en)

(noun) a reminder of mortality / (noun) death's-head

mendacity (en)

untruthfulness

mendicant (en)

(noun) beggar / (noun) a member of a religious order (as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal nor community property; friar