Lexington Books imprint: 3858 books
Spaceships and Politics
The Political Theory of Rod Serling
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling examines the political themes in The Twilight Zone. In this unique show, Rod Serling used fantasy and the supernatural to explore political ideas such as capital punishment, the individual and the state, war, conformity, the state of nature,...
Derridada
Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Jacques Derrida said that deconstruction 'takes place everywhere.' Derridada reexamines the work of artist Marcel Duchamp as one of these places. Tucker suggests that Duchamp belongs to deconstruction as much as deconstruction belongs to Duchamp. Both bear the infra-thin mark of the other. He explores...
Re-reading Derrida
Perspectives on Mourning and Its Hospitalities
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a unique collaborative exploration of the legacies of the late philosopher, Jacques Derrida, across a wide variety of fields.
Anchoring the book are two major essays on mourning by two...
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
The Constitutive A Priori
Developing and Extending an Epistemological Framework
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
The question of the a priori—can an adequate epistemology be developed without appeal to a non-empirical source of justification?—is a core issue running throughout the history of philosophy, and recent decades have seen some provocative and potentially epochal work on the issue. Arthur Sullivan...
Global Movements
Dance, Place, and Hybridity
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Global Movements: Dance, Place, and Hybridity provides a theoretical and practical examination of the relationships between the global mobility of ideas and people, and its impact on dance and space. Using seven case studies, the contributors illustrate the mixture of dance styles that result from...
African American Women's Rhetoric
The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering...
Machiavelli's Romans
Liberty and Greatness in the Discourses on Livy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
Although Machiavelli is usually considered a pioneer among modern political philosophers, he read deeply in and was greatly influenced by the works of classical Roman thinkers such as Livy. There is thus a fundamental tension between the modern and the ancient within Machiavelli's philosophy; he is...
by Anna Bedford, Benay Blend, Michelle Deininger
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
There are countless ways of thinking, feeling, and acting like an ecofeminist. Ecofeminism includes a plurality of perspectives, thriving in dialogue between diverse theories and practices involving ecological and feminist matters of concern. Deepening the dialogue, the contributors in this anthology...
How Television Shapes Our Worldview
Media Representations of Social Trends and Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Over the last half of the twentieth century, television has become the predominant medium through which the public accesses information about the world. Through the news, situation comedies, police dramas, and commercials, we learn about the world around us, and our role within it. These genres, narratives,...
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America
Trauma, Politics, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Sites of Memory in Spain and Latin America isa collection of essays that explores historical memory at the intersection of political, cultural, social, and economic forces in the contexts of Spain and Latin America. The essays here focus on a variety of forms of memory—from the most concrete to...
Reproductive Justice and Women’s Voices
Health Communication across the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Reproductive rights are human rights. Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan offers an in-depth analysis of women’s reproductive health in a transformative, sociopolitical moment that is redefining women’s access to health care; reducing disparities in...
Ukraine's Quest for Identity
Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Ukraine's Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest...
Borrowed Imagination
The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources examines masterpieces of English Romantic poetry and shows the Arabic and Islamic sources that inspired Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron when composing their poems in the eighteenth, or early nineteenth century. Critics...