Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Olayiwola Abegunrin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book examines the political and economic philosophy of Chief Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi Awolowo and his concepts of democratic socialism (Liberal Democratic Socialism). It studies how Chief Awolowo and his political parties, first the Action Group (AG) 1951-1966 and later the Unity Party of Nigeria...
Neuroscience and Religion
Brain, Mind, Self, and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
For religious persons, the notion of human being is tied inextricably to the notion of God (or the gods) and turns on this question: what is human being? How did we, with our almost infinite capacities for thought, change, and domination, come to be? Imbued with powers far beyond any other animal,...
A Psychohistory of Metaphors
Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
How have figures of speech configured new concepts of time, space, and mind throughout history? Brian J. McVeigh answers this question in A Psychohistory of Metaphors: Envisioning Time, Space, and Self through the Centuries by exploring “meta-framing:” our ever-increasing capability to “step...
by William Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Throughout the course of the twentieth century communism has enjoyed direct competition with all other governmental and economic systems. Often, communist countries produced their own special brand of party intellectual. These figures rightly occupied their place within their own national context...
After the Deluge
New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2004
Madame de Pompadour's famous quip, 'Apr_s nous, le deluge,' serves as fitting inspiration for this lively discussion of postwar French intellectual and cultural life. Over the past thirty years, North American and European scholarship has been significantly transformed by the absorption of poststructuralist...
Pharmakon
Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2010
Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens examines the emerging concern for controlling states of psychological ecstasy in the history of western thought, focusing on ancient Greece (c. 750-146 BCE), particularly the Classical Period (c. 500-336 BCE) and especially the dialogues...
Becoming Achilles
Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond,Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens agonistic,...
by Joaquín Abellán, Jonathan Israel, Henri Krop
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
In today’s developed world, much of what people believe about religious toleration has evolved from crucial innovations in toleration theory developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers from that period have been rightly celebrated for creating influential, liberating concepts...
by Patricia Ranft
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
In recent years numerous scholars in disciplines not traditionally associated with theology have promoted an interesting thesis. They maintain that one particular Christian doctrine, the Incarnation, had an inordinate influence on the shape of Western culture. The doctrine, they say, was so radical...
The Marx Machine
Politics, Polemics, Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Karl Marx has rarely, if ever, been treated as a writer. Charles Barbour argues not only that we can examine the literary and rhetorical aspects of Marx’s texts, but also that, as soon as we begin to do so, those texts begin to take on new and entirely unexpected political implications. In the past,...
Engaging Agnes Heller
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of...
The Power of Negativity
Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
Raya Dunayevskaya is hailed as the founder of Marxist-Humanism in the United States. In this new collection of her essays co-editors Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson have crafted a work in which the true power and originality of Dunayevskaya's ideas are displayed. This extensive collection of writings...
Divergent Paths
Hegel in Marxism and Engelsism
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2006
Divergent Paths is the first volume of a groundbreaking three-volume work. Its purpose is to explore the relationship between Hegel and Marx; to define the relationship between Hegel and Engels; and to distinguish between the theories of Marxism and Engelsism. Marx used Feuerbach towards the critique...
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...