Lexington Books: 3858 books
Metaphor and Metaphilosophy
Philosophy as Combat, Play, and Aesthetic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of language—metaphor—gives shape and boundary to the landscape of the discipline. The book examines metaphors of combat, play, and aesthetic experience and emphasizes how the choices we make in philosophical...
by Marcus Baynes-Rock, Dylan Belton, Ben Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far, namely, the evolution of human wisdom. How can we best understand the human capacity for wisdom, where did it come from, and how did it emerge? It explores lines of convergence...
Sociological Trespasses
Interrogating Sin and Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. They are also the subject matter of this book. Here, however, they are not viewed as social problems to be solved by technical experts. Instead, they are viewed as products...
Animals and War
Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Animals and War: Confronting the Military-Animal Industrial Complex is the first book to examine how nonhuman animals are used for war by military forces. Each chapter delves deeply into modes of nonhuman animal exploitation: as weapons, test subjects, and transportation, and as casualties of war...
by Denton & Hockx
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican...
Monstrous Fictions
Reflections on John Calvin in a Time of Culture War
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The Reformer John Calvin has influenced America in a formative way. Calvin remains respected as a theologian to whose work intellectuals on both the right and left appeal. In the nineteen-nineties, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) formed a politically influential ecumenical coalition to oppose...
Crisis of Transcendence
A Theology of Digital Art and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
From the Internet to the iPhone, digital technology is no mere cultural artifact. It affects how we experience and understand our world and ourselves at the deepest levels-it is a fundamental condition of living. The digitization of modern life constitutes an essential field of religious concern because...
by Leah Bradshaw, Charles R. Embry, Molly Brigid Flynn
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines how these teachers conveyed truth to their students against the ideological influences found in the university and society. Philosophers from Edmund Husserl and...
The Center Must Not Hold
White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within...
The Life of Anne Damer
Portrait of a Regency Artist
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The first biography of Anne Damer since 1908, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, by Jonathan Gross, draws on Damer’s notebooks and previously unpublished letters to explore the life and legacy of England’s first significant female sculptor. Best known for her portraits of dogs...
by Mary T. Clark, Siobhan Nash-Marshall, William Werpehowski
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the topic of social justice. Each essay mines the major themes present in Augustine's extensive corpus...
by Charlotte Vignau
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Modernity, Complex Societies, and the Alphorn provides a fascinating examination of the musical instrument the alphorn, alphorn music and its performance. Indeed, it is the first book about this extraordinary instrument to appear in English. It analyses the alphorn phenomenon as a symbol of the Swiss...
Buddhism and Postmodernity
Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Buddhism and Postmodernity is a response to some of the questions that have emerged in the process of Buddhism's encounters with modernity and the West. Jin Y. Park broadly outlines these questions as follows: first, why are the interpretations and evaluations of Buddhism so different in Europe (in...
Biblical Psychotherapy
Reclaiming Scriptural Narratives for Positive Psychology and Suicide Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Biblical Psychotherapy, Kalman J. Kaplan and Paul Cantz offer a new approach to suicide prevention based on biblical narratives that is designed to overcome the suicidogenic patterns in Greek and Roman stories implicit in modern mental health. More than sixteen suicides and self-mutilations emerge...