Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
The Pious Sex
Essays on Women and Religion in the History of Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over the ages: the characterization of women as superstitious...
Exploring Certainty
Wittgenstein and Wide Fields of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty explores a myriad of new and important ideas regarding our notions of belief, knowledge, skepticism, and certainty. During the course of his exploration, Wittgenstein makes a fascinating new discovery about certitude, namely, that it is categorically distinct from...
The Problem of Evil
New Philosophical Directions
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book engages the problem of evil from a variety of philosophical viewpoints, traditions, methodologies, and interests. For millennia, philosophers, theologians, and people outside of the academy have thought about evil and its relation to religious belief. The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical...
by Mudita Agnihotri, Rachel Bari, Sutapa Biswas
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
doyenne signifies the various expressions of female, feminine, and feminist aspects of contemporary literature in India, through multiple theoretical frameworks. Contemporary Women’s Writing in India is an edited collection dealing with a range of these issues set in the society of Indian culture....
Crucible of Freedom
Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This book explores the relation between democracy and industrialization in United States history. Over the course of the 1930s, the political center almost disappeared as the Democratic New Deal became the litmus test of class, with blue collar workers providing its bedrock of support while white...
Working Class Heroes
Rock Music and British Society in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
In Working Class Heroes, David Simonelli explores the influence of rock and roll on British society in the 1960s and '70s. At a time when social distinctions were becoming harder to measure, rock musicians appeared to embody the mythical qualities of the idealized working class by perpetuating the image of rebellious, irreverent, and authentic musicians.
Where Do We Go from Here?
American Democracy and the Renewal of the Radical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States. As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining themselves solely by what they are against, this collection challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how radical politics can lead to a more fruitful...
A Spiritual Bloomsbury
Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Lives and Writings of Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2006
A Spiritual Bloomsbury is an exploration of how three English writers—Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood—sought to come to terms with their homosexuality by engagement with Hinduism. Copley reveals how these writers came to terms with their inner conflicts and were led in...
Dropping out of Socialism
The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected...
Nigerian Immigrants in the United States
Race, Identity, and Acculturation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Africans in America come from different regions of the continent; they speak different languages and are from different faith traditions. Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: Race, Identity, and Acculturation attempts to generate an interest in the study of African immigrants by looking at issues...
by Sheila Murnaghan
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's plot, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal values of Homeric society, an aristocratic culture organized around recognition in the broader senses of...
Letters from Readers in the Polish American Press, 1902–1969
A Corner for Everybody
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
A Corner for Everybody is a unique collection of close to five hundred letters from Polish American readers, which were published in the Polish-language weekly Ameryka-Echo between 1902 and 1969. In these letters, Polish immigrants speak in their own words about their American experience, and vigorously...
Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies
Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
*Commonsense Choices from Uncommon Voices:*Rethinking America’s Correctional Policies brings together the experiences of men who served time in prison with contemporary research on correctional policy. This work combines a voyeuristic desire to observe “evil” and the consequences of the system...
Philosophy and Working-through the Past
A Psychoanalytic Approach to Social Pathologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
At certain moments in his political essays, Kant conceives of socio-historical emancipation as a process of working ourselves out of pathological legacies, suggesting that emancipation would involve a process of working through our affective attachments to entrenched, regressive social arrangements....