Lexington Books: 3858 books
True Freedom
Spinoza's Practical Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy is a straightforward presentation of Spinoza's philosophy focused on the issue of how one might live. The book is unique among recent Spinoza scholarship in the way in which it centers on the ethical component in Spinoza's work. In order to bring Spinoza's...
Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness
A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book boldly ventures to cross some traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument regarding the nature of language by reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. So it is a work both in literary criticism...
Reading the Islamic City
Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved...
The Objectives of Islamic Law
The Promises and Challenges of the Maqasid al-Shari'a
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Scholars, thinkers, and activists around the world are paying increasing attention to a legal reform method that promises to revolutionize the way people think about Islamic law. Known as “The Objectives of the Sharī‘a” (maqāṣid al-sharī‘a), the theory offers a way to derive and apply...
Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice
Michael Walzer, Stanley Hauerwas, and Cornel West on Justice and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice is to ask how it might be possible today to uphold an understanding of the prophetic voice that comports in essential ways with its expression in the biblical vision, while attending especially to contemporary judgments regarding the epistemological significance...
Social Functions of Synagogue Song
A Durkheimian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Social Functions of Synagogue Song: A Durkheimian Approach by Jonathan L. Friedmann paints a detailed picture of the important role sacred music plays in Jewish religious communities. This study explores one possible way to approach the subject of music’s intimate connection with public worship:...
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Laughing Lion and the Strutting Fox
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Machiavelli is usually understood as a thinker who separated morality from politics or who championed Roman, pagan morality over conventional, Christian morality. Belliotti argues, instead, that Machiavelli's innovation is his understanding of the perhaps irresolvable moral conflicts that exist within...
Poor America
A Comparative-Historical Study of Poverty in the U.S. and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Poor America describes the sharp contrast in the extent of poverty between the United States and six Western European countries. While 36 million Americans live below the poverty line, a much smaller percent of Western Europeans struggle with the same problem. Samuel J. Eldersveld seeks to discover...
The Transformative Power of Faith
A Narrative Approach to Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The Transformative Power of Faith examines how and why some people, particularly those coming out of highly self-destructive, violent, and antisocial backgrounds who appear beyond repair, experience profound personal transformation through conversion to strong faith. Illustrated by stories of converts...
by Cameron Thomson, Sandor Goodhart, Nadia Delicata
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
After the surprising publishing success of the so-called New Atheists it has become clear that there is a market for critical discussions about religion. A religion is much more complex than a set of beliefs which cannot be proven, as the New Atheists argue. There is, in fact, much more to religion...
Unsettling Science and Religion
Contributions and Questions from Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book borrows from the intellectual labor of queer theory in order to unsettle—or “queer”—the discourses of “religion” and “science,” and, by extension, the “science and religion discourse.” Drawing intellectual and social cues from works by influential theorists such as Michel...
Sentient Performativities of Embodiment
Thinking alongside the Human
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective...
by Ann Althouse, Charles Cohen, John D. Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Rising calls in both the United States and abroad for theologizing national agendas have renewed examinations about whether liberal states can accommodate such programs without either endangering citizens' rights or trivializing religious concerns. Conventional wisdom suggests that theology is necessarily...