Lexington Books: 3858 books
Butler on Whitehead
On the Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This volume is based on the first set of formal conversations which brings together the dynamic philosophies of two eminent thinkers: Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Each has drawn from a wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of becoming, of syntactical violence, and...
Strong Democracy in Crisis
Promise or Peril?
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is a robust and relevant collection from a truly distinguished group of political theorists actively rethinking the promise and perils of democracy. The book is coherent in its focus on a common theme and aim: to advance and refine the political project of promoting democratic theory and practice....
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States
The View from Prince George's County, Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1968 to 2009. The life course trajectories of seventy individuals and their networks,...
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping
An Analysis of Risk and Prevention Factors
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
While serving in United Nations peacekeeping missions, some peacekeepers sexually exploit and abuse the local population, a fact which erupted into a scandal published by many media outlets in 2005 and 2006. This book analyzes factors which may increase the risk of such behavior as well as measures...
by Aurel Kolnai
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great...
Nietzsche and Zen
Self Overcoming Without a Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, André van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a...
by Chielozona Eze
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The postcolonial African culture, as it is discoursed in the academia, is largely influenced by Africa’s response to colonialism. To the degree that it is a response, it is to considerably reactive, and lacks forceful moral incentives for social critical consciousness and nation-building. Quite...
Post-Holocaust Jewish–Christian Dialogue
After the Flood, before the Rainbow
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This volume sheds light on the transformed post-Holocaust relationship between Catholics and Jews. Once implacable theological foes, the two traditions have travelled a great distance in coming to view the other with respect and dignity. Responding to the horrors of Auschwitz, the Catholic Church...
The Politics and Art of John L. Stoddard
Reframing Authority, Otherness, and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
This book is a historical and critical assessment of contributions by American writer and lecturer John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931). It is the first scholarly effort to provide visual and literary analyses of his illustrated travel works and political writings. It claims that Stoddard was a principle...
by Andy Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition offers a fresh reading of the later career development of one of America’s most celebrated authors. Through a contextual analysis of a select number of texts, this innovative study discusses how famed novels such as American Pastoral and The Plot against...
The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx
Rethinking Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all...
Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies
The Heroic Beasts of Total Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Superheroes and Critical Animal Studies explores and puts into dialogue two growing field of studies, comic studies and critical animal studies. The book’s aim is to create a form of praxis that people can use to actualize many of the values superheroes strive to protect. To this end, contributor...
Power at the Roots
Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Through direct engagement with gardeners, activists, and residents, Miranda Martinez shows the breadth and diversity of the community gardening movement and how these groups inserted themselves into local politics and development to create change. She demonstrates how real people are effective as...
Women Writing Nature
A Feminist View
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2007
Since Silent Spring was published in 1962, the number of texts about the natural world written by women has grown exponentially. The essays in Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View argue that women writing in the 20th century are utilizing the historical connection of women and the natural world in...