Peter Lang Inc International Academic Publishers imprint: 795 books
Conditions of Mediation
Phenomenological Perspectives on Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Phenomenology has become one of the most important philosophical traditions underpinning recent theory and research on new media, whether or not the word is used explicitly. Conditions of Mediation brings together, for the first time in a single publication, the diversity of phenomenological media...
by Xavier Lakshmanan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
In this work, Xavier Lakshmanan argues for a textual linguistic approach to Christian theology. The book takes its shape in conversation with Paul Ricœur’s philosophical thought, demonstrating how Ricœur’s hermeneutic philosophy can inform the way Christians interpret and appropriate biblical...
Gonzo Text
Disentangling Meaning in Hunter S. Thompsons Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Hunter Thompson’s writing is widely read and studied, yet as a methodology and body of work his Gonzo journalism has not been the subject of much critical or theoretical examination. This book fills the gap by constructing a coherent theoretical framework around Gonzo journalism.
Drawing on theories...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
The revolution in media technologies and the political upheavals intertwined with them demand a new media ethics. Given the power of global media corporations and the high-speed electronics of media technologies worldwide, more and more people are either brought together through dialogue and communication...
Getting College Ready
Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities challenges the way we conceive of college access, retention, and success for underrepresented students writ large. Specifically, through presenting an in-depth, qualitative case study...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Communication scholarship has not enjoyed the same kind of theoretical cohesion or ontological security as some disciplines. The field’s intellectual «roving eye» and resistance to establishing a single core body of knowledge has inspired serial rounds of soul-searching and existential doubt among...
Ecological Pedagogy, Buddhist Pedagogy, Hermeneutic Pedagogy
Experiments in a Curriculum for Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
This book explores three interrelated roots of scholarly work that have a supportive and elaborative affinity to authentic and engaging classroom inquiry: ecological consciousness, Buddhist epistemologies, philosophies and practices, and interpretive inquiry or «hermeneutics». Although these three...
The Limits of Cosmopolis
Ethics and Provinciality in the Dialogue of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book is concerned with cosmopolitanism – a privileged notion of «world citizenship» – and whether or not a cosmopolitan position is conducive to human flourishing when its preoccupation is aesthetic.
The Limits of Cosmopolis addresses the question of how human life is organized: Is it possible...
Number, Word, and Spirit
Rethinking T. F. Torrances Theological Science From a Pneumatological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This book contributes to the study of Thomas F. Torrance by promoting his realist agenda, and the same time, expanding his program that takes into consideration a well-nuanced pentecostal spirituality. More specifically, it assesses the foundational methodological framework of Torrance’s scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Critically Researching Youth addresses the unique possibilities and contexts involved in deepening a discourse around youth. Authors address both social theoretical and methodological approaches as they delve into a contemporary discipline, which supports research with – not on – young adults....
Harmony and Exchange
Toward a Legoic Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book examines two main concepts – harmony and exchange – in relation to the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of human life. As such, what differentiates humans from other living species are the possibility of understanding a context and the willingness to collaborate and...
Why Discourse Matters
Negotiating Identity in the Mediatized World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This volume draws on issues and cases from more than 20 countries to provide empirical evidence and theoretical insights into why discourse matters. Covering a wide range of concepts and topical issues, contributors from media studies, journalism, and linguistics address the following key questions:...
Learning What You Cannot Say
Teaching Free Speech and Political Literacy in an Authoritarian Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
How do teachers know the limits of their speech? Free speech means more than simply being free to agree, though the authoritarian managerial cultures of many schools increasingly ignore the need for a strong and empowered teaching profession. In response to this ongoing systemic contradiction, Learning...
African-American History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Every year more colleges and high schools are offering classes (and often making them required classes) in black history. Joanne Turner-Sadler provides a concise and probing treatment of 400 years of black history in America that can be used with age groups ranging from lower high school to college....