Lexington Books: 3858 books
Justice as Right Actions
An Original Theory of Justice in Conversation with Major Contemporary Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Justice as Right Actions presents an original theory of justice anchored in the analytical philosophical tradition. In contrast to many contemporary approaches, the theory provides normative guidance, rather than focusing solely on political structures and institutions, as the question of justice...
Forms of Fanonism
Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
When Frantz Fanon's critiques of racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and humanism are brought into the ever-widening orbit of Africana critical theory something unprecedented in the annals of Africana intellectual history happens: five distinct forms of Fanonism emerge. Forms of Fanonism: Frantz...
Morality and Justice
Reading Boylan's 'A Just Society'
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This book is a collection of twelve essays devoted to Michael Boylan's important work in moral philosophy,A Just Society. The collection is thematically organized to mirror Boylan's own volume, so the first half explores fundamental issues of justification in ethics while the second half focuses on...
by Ann Ferguson, Milton Fisk, John L. Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Taking Socialism Seriously raises essential questions about what socialism is and how socialists can reach it by addressing a long list of potential quandaries. The contributions compiled by Anatole Anton and Richard Schmitt describe how socialism differs from a reformed and more humane form of capitalism....
Philosophers of Capitalism
Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Philosophers of Capitalism provides an interdisciplinary approach, attempting to discover the feasibility of an integration of Austrian Economics and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. In the first section of the book, Edward W. Younkins supplies essays presenting the essential ideas of Carl Menger,...
Human, All Too (Post)Human
The Humanities after Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
The contemporary has marked itself off from modernity by questioning its humanism that centers the world around the human as the moral subject of free will and self-determination, the bearer of universal essence that is the basis of human rights. Modernism normalizes humanism through language as referential,...
Rescuing Dewey
Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
This book rescues an often misunderstood, underappreciated, and radical John Dewey. It centers on his rejection of traditional epistemology for his original and powerful view of "logic"—with serious implications for general philosophy, the philosophy of the human sciences, including psychology,...
Being White, Being Good
White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and epistemological assumptions that white complicity...
The Politics of Judgment
Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
This innovative and theoretically sophisticated book investigates how aesthetic judgment forms the groundwork for understanding political identities. It posits aesthetics as central to conceptions of politics that are based on how people understand the relationship between themselves and larger communities....
Political Economy of China–Taiwan Relations
Origins and Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
China–Taiwan economic ties are now among the key factors influencing the relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait which is still one of the flashpoints in today’s world. This book traces the origin and the process of how so-called “cross-strait economic ties” became such a key...
Understanding North Korea
Indigenous Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Why does North Korea want to possess nuclear capabilities? In order to find the answer to this question, we must have an accurate understanding of the history and structure of the North Korean regime. So far, we have only formed conjectures and predictions regarding North Korea based on our own perspectives;...
Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land
Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has reshaped the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents. Using ethnographic...
by Oliver Stuenkel
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
The transformation of the BRIC acronym from an investment term into a household name of international politics and, more recently, into a semi-institutionalized political outfit (called BRICS, with a capital ‘S’), is one of the defining developments in international politics in the past decade....
China and New Left Visions
Political and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development....