Lexington Books: 3858 books
Disentangling Consciencism
Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Kwame Nkrumah is globally recognized as a foremost pan-Africanist strategist and statesman. He is less widely acknowledged as a philosopher, in spite of his considerable philosophical training, seminal contribution to African political theory, and incisive critique of the ethics of international relations....
by Patrick Barron, Marina Spunta, Monica Seger
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions...
Colonial Chesapeake
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
In Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives leading scholars offer interdisciplinary revisionist essays on the political, cultural and social history of early Maryland and Virginia, calling special attention to the importance of power relations, reproductive politics, and identity politics in the shaping...
Kyrgyzstan beyond "Democracy Island" and "Failing State"
Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Kyrgyzstan is probably the best known of any central Asian country, the one that has elicited the most academic publications, reports by NGOs or advocacy groups, and op-eds in the media. The country opened up massively to Western influence through development aid for civil society and for economic...
Feminist Activist Ethnography
Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist...
American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd
Spectacular Violence
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence examines spectatorship in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on texts by Theodore Dreiser, Miriam Michelson, Irvin S. Cobb, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. The spectator functions as a lens...
by Scott Gambrill Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Without presupposing prior knowledge this accessibly written introduction to Christianity covers the entire history of the religion from its Old Testament foundations up to the present, including the significant individuals, events, doctrines, and rituals of the faith. Sinclair surveys the major historical...
Antisemitism, Gender Bias, and the "Hervay Affair" of 1904
Bigotry in the Austrian Alps
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
This book examines the antisemitism that flourished outside of Vienna, in Austrian provinces such as Styria, Carinthia, Vorarlberg, Upper Austria, and Tyrol, focusing in particular on gender bias and its relationship to antisemitism. The 1904 arrest and bigamy trial of Frau von Hervay, the Jewish...
by Ilan Berman, Leonardo Coutinho, Joel Hirst
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
In recent years, significant attention has focused upon the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the threat they pose to the United States and the West. Far less well understood, however, has been the phenomenon of Iran’s regional advance in America’s own Hemisphere—an intrusion...
Andrey Platonov
The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This book traces the originality of Andrey Platonov’s vision of the Revolution in readings of his works. It has been common in Platonov scholarship to measure him within the parameters of a political pro et contra the October Revolution and Soviet society, but the proposal of this book is to look...
by Jack A. Draper III, Sophie Dufays, Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Screening Minors in Latin American Cinema is the first volume to delve into the construction of children's subjectivity and agency in Latin American film, and addresses such questions as: How and to what extent do films express the point of view of the child? How do plots and film practices represent...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankélévitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of moral philosophy in relation to his work as a whole, his relationship to contemporary French thought,...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Philosopher of the Second Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
By subjecting Nietzsche to a Platonic critique, Altman punctures his “pose of untimeliness” while making use of Nietzsche’s own aphoristic style of presentation. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche—named for a Prussian King—is thereby revealed to be the representative philosopher of the Second Reich.
Labrang Monastery
A Tibetan Buddhist Community on the Inner Asian Borderlands, 1709-1958
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Labrang Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Amdo and its extended support community are one of the largest and most famous in Tibetan history. This crucially important and little-studied community is on the northeast corner of the Tibetan Plateau in modern Gansu Province, in close proximity to Chinese,...