Lexington Books: 3858 books
Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number of thematic contradictions. The standard approach has been a method of selective reading, that is,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy explores the range of ways in which Frantz Fanon's decolonization theory can reveal new answers to perennial philosophical questions and new paths to social justice. The aim is to show not just that Fanon's thought remains philosophically relevant, but that...
by Elana Gomel, Tim Lanzendörfer, Martina Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel investigates the role of genre in the contemporary novel: taking its departure from the observation that numerous contemporary novelists make use of popular genre influences in what are still widely considered to be literary novels, it sketches the uses,...
Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy
Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
In Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan's New Metaphysics, Derong Chen examines Chinese philosophy through a critical analysis of Feng Youlan's nnew metaphysics. He views metaphysics in Chinese philosophy as a metaphorical metaphysics separate from Western metaphysics....
Old Stories Retold
Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin's discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical...
Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China
A Dialogic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze...
Another Phenomenology of Humanity
A Reading of A Dream of Red Mansions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Another Phenomenology of Humanity: A Reading of A Dream of Red Mansions is devoted to developing another version of phenomenology of humanity—human nature, human dispositions and human desires—by taking A Dream of Red Mansions, the crown jewel of Chinese culture, as its main literary paradigm...
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China
Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions—and snares—of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple...
Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader
Reading Science Fiction and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get...
The Politics of Perfection
Technology and Creation in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film provides an exploration of the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. Each chapter provides a detailed analysis of a film or novel, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Ridley Scott’s...
Decolonizing the Westernized University
Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Decolonizing the Westernized University: Interventions in Philosophy of Education from Within and Without provides a sharper understanding of the crisis and the responses to the westernized university at multiple sites around the world.
As an intervention in the philosophy of education discourse,...
Technofuturos
Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Technofuturos offers a critical and innovative exploration of the forms of representation found in Latina/o studies. The editors, Nancy Raquel Mirabal and Agustin La—Montes, challenge conventional notions of Latina/o identities, histories, and cultures by historicizing and differentiating the multiple...
Women in Academia Crossing North–South Borders
Gender, Race, and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Drawing broadly on decolonial studies, postcolonial feminist scholarship, and studies on identity, this interdisciplinary edited volume brings together personal accounts written by female scholars who migrated from Latin America and joined universities in the Global North (Australia, the United States,...