Lexington Books: 3858 books
The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism
And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In contemporary political philosophy, there is much debate over how to maintain a public order in pluralistic democracies in which citizens hold radically different religious views. The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism deals with this theoretically and practically difficult issue by examining...
Wretched Aristotle
Using the Past to Rescue the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
About eighty-five years ago, philosophers and literary intellectuals as diverse as Edmund Husserl, George Santayana, and Paul ValZry, aware of the declining influence of Christianity, spoke of 'the crisis of Western civilization.' In Wretched Aristotle: Using the Past to Rescue the Future, Jude P....
Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace
Thomism and Democratic Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2002
Twentieth-century French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon pioneered new approaches to understanding and defending political democracy in the wake of two world wars. Rather than break from a religious tradition that seemed to struggle against modernity and certain forms of democratic...
Concepts of Nature
Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or...
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920–1976
Political Passions, Women's Rights, and Congressional Battles
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The Political Life of Bella Abzug, 1920–1976: Political Passions, Women’s Rights, and Congressional Battles, by Alan H. Levy, marks the first full biography of Bella Abzug. Abzug was one of woman in politics in mid- and late-twentieth-century America. Levy traces the New York City world of Russian-Jewish...
Negotiating Gendered Discourses
Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
It has been argued that the first presidential campaign of Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina used a rhetoric of newness. Some political observers have said that as the “first women” to successfully run for the highest office in these countries, they were...
by Soraya Ataide, María Lourdes Basualdo, Roberto Benencia
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Bolivian Labor Immigrants' Experiences in Argentina examines the projects, trajectories, and everyday lives of Bolivian immigrants. It gathers research results of specialists who have studied the various ways in which these immigrants participate in certain labor markets in different urban and rural...
The Idea of the Public Sphere
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
The notion of 'the public sphere' has become increasingly central to theories and studies of democracy, media, and culture over the last few decades. It has also gained political importance in the context of the European Union's efforts to strengthen democracy, integration, and identity. The Idea...
An American Stand
Senator Margaret Chase Smith and the Communist Menace, 1948-1972
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman in American history elected in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the first politician to take a public stand against McCarthyism, and the first woman of a major political party to run for president of the United States. An American Stand: Senator...
The First to Cry Down Injustice?
Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1955
The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews_because of a commitment to fighting prejudice_would have taken a position against this discriminatory...
Women Politicking Politely
Advancing Feminism in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
This book includes the relatively unknown stories of six important women who laid the foundation for improving women’s equality in the U.S. While they largely worked behind the scenes, they made a significant impact. In the group are two female political operatives who worked behind the scenes along...
Maine
The Dynamics of Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Christian Potholm has worked as a political insider and activist for much of the last forty years, dividing his time between the classroom and the election arena. By analyzing the interactive ebbs and flows of political campaigns, Potholm uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to understand...
by Simon Wickham-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
The life of the Sixth Dalai Lama does not end with his supposed death at Kokonor in November 1706, on the way to Beijing, and an audience with the Manchu Emperor Kangxi. This book, the so-called Hidden Life, presents a very different Tsangyang Gyamtso, neither a louche poet nor a drinker, but a sober...
by Leonard Moss
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic individual. They reveal the treason, flux, and duplicity...