Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
by Daniel Breazeale, Benjamin D. Crowe, Jeffrey Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism contains ten new essays by leading and rising scholars from the United States, Europe, and Asia who explore the historical development and conceptual contours of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. The collection begins with a set of comparative...
Authorial Ethics
How Writers Abuse Their Calling
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Authorial Ethics is a normative study that deals with the many ways in which writers abuse their commitment to truth and integrity. It is divided by academic discipline and includes chapters on journalism, history, literature, art, psychology, and science, among others. Robert Hauptman offers generalizations...
John Stuart Mill’s Platonic Heritage
Happiness through Character
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
In the early draft of his Autobiography (London, 1873), John Stuart Mill described himself as “a pupil of Plato, and cast in the mould of his dialectics." However, how Plato’s influence came about, to what extent, and with regard to which aspects of Mill’s thought, form questions that do...
Liberalism under Siege
The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced sociological and historical approach to political theory. The...
The Art of Power
Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2006
The Art of Power is a challenge to traditional political theory. Diego A. von Vacano examines the work of Machiavelli, arguing that he establishes a new, aesthetic perspective on political life. He then proceeds to carry out the most extensive analysis to date of an important relationship in political...
Plato versus Parmenides
The Debate over Coming-into-Being in Greek Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Plato versus Parmenides investigates the concept of genesis, or coming into being, a problem that has absorbed the greatest philosophical thinkers. Robert J. Roecklein explores two philosophical giants who tackled this issue: Plato and Parmenides from Elea. Particularly interesting to Roecklein is...
The Philosopher's Song
The Poets' Influence on Plato
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets were cultural...
Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Reading Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A Beginners Guide is written for anyone who faces the challenge of reading Philosophical Investigations. John J. Ross guides the reader slowly through each relevant section of text, explaining and elaborating key ideas, and providing the philosophical...
Ethics, Art, and Representations of the Holocaust
Essays in Honor of Berel Lang
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
The American-Jewish philosopher Berel Lang has left an indelible impression on an unusually broad range of fields that few scholars can rival. From his earliest innovations in philosophy and meta-philosophy, to his ground-breaking work on representation, historical writing, and art after Auschwitz,...
Why Study Talmud in the Twenty-First Century?
The Relevance of the Ancient Jewish Text to Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
The Talmud is the repository of thousands of years of Jewish wisdom. It is a conglomerate of law, legend, and philosophy, a blend of unique logic and shrewd pragmatism, of history and science, of anecdotes and humor. Unfortunately, its sometimes complex subject matter often seems irrelevant in today's...
Transgression as a Mode of Resistance
Rethinking Social Movement in an Era of Corporate Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Since industrialization, two major theoretical perspectives have accompanied the vibrant practice of social change. The first, hegemony, emerged as a less deterministic route to revolution from Marxist theory, and forms the common sense of social movement today. Within hegemonic resistance, rhetoric...
by John Russon, Galen A. Johnson, John Lysaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors...
The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954–1978
Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This book presents for the first time the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between the Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and two other noted thinkers, the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist...
Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930
Struggles for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America’s norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early...