Lexington Books

This book explores the need to interrogate and subvert the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in the reiteration of norms through the construct of accompaniment, both within black spaces and...

This book uses a theory of cyborg semiotics to explore the similarities between language and cyborgs in their formation, interpretation, and relationships. This intersectional theory provides a...

The book is a rare compendium of insightful essays by eminent Indian scholars on the Mahima Cult, its genesis, and its growth. The volume focuses on Bhima Bhoi, the poet-philosopher and the prime...

The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze the paradoxes and tensions in David Fincher's filmography by examining his attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense...

The thirteen essays in this book offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson's work, treating this brilliant but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker,...

This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sofia Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.Author: Naaman...

This book explores the proposal found in a Libellus written and given to Pope Leo X by two Camaldolese hermits who argued church reform must begin with a crusade to eliminate Islam.Author: James G...

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa examines the cultural and social impact of Japanese colonialism and modernity on the wider aspects of everyday life in Korea...

This book narrates the decolonial feminist journey of a racialized settler woman toward reflective, transformative reconciliation in Canada.Author: Jebunnessa ChapolaPublisher: Lexington...

This book engages historically and theologically with the Hindu and Jewish traditions, covering conceptions of the divine, religious heroes, women, devotional literature, theodicy, land, and...

Through engaging scholarship and detailed narrative, Kathryn M. Lucchese presents a pivotal, little-known episode in history, Date Masamune's 1613 Mission to Rome. Illustrated with original maps as...

In this book, four authors reflect on whether the US Constitution embodies certain "principles." They conclude that it does not, at least not directly, and that it's a good thing that it and other...

If God exists, why is there so much pain and suffering, and why isn't his existence more obvious? Philip Pegan develops a theodicy in answer to these questions that is consistent with theological...

This book offers a nuanced understanding of God's power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible...

This book identifies and parses through ten domains of equality. The book explores the meta question how a state might govern itself to maximize equality for all. It provides an understanding of...

A Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology: Object, Method, Findings, and Applications provides the first systematic approach to phenomenological sociology. Carlos Belvedere claims that...

When faced with problematic curricula, some teachers will submit and do as they are told, and others will reject the problematic curricula and face the consequences. Instead of submission or...

Adam Smith's sociable market has been contorted into a free market; Christian love has become selfish individualism; John Adams' fear that elite domination would destroy our republic has been ignored...

This collection combines adaptation and disability studies to examine the ways that popular cultural remakes, reboots, and adaptations navigate representations of mental disability and health. The...

In Aesthetic Expertise, Ole Martin Skille? explains what aesthetic expertise is, what it's used for, how it manifests across diverse roles within aesthetic practices, and why we should want access to...

This book explores the motivations of the protesters in the Tibetan self-immolation protest movement, the origin and widespread nature of the protests, and the ongoing colonial oppression of Tibet by...

The contributors to this volume ask whether democracy is universal or culturally bound, how the adoption of Western liberal models of democracy has hindered democratisation in Africa, and how...

This book provides an insightful analysis from complementary perspectives of the seven-decades-long contest and contestation between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China for...

African Immigrants in the United States: The Gendering Significance of Race? examines recent trends and implications of the growth of African immigration to the United States. Mamadi Corra highlights...

This book draws on the Black radical tradition to deconstruct modern society's resident contradictions and its affirming sociopathology that constrain critical readings of power, aesthetics, and...

This book creates and explores philosophies of African development suitable for Black sub-Saharan African countries The first part of African Political and Economic Philosophy with Africapitalism...

Using Ambazonia as a case study, this book examines the phenomenon of African-on-African colonialism in postcolonial Africa, provides a deeper understanding of the complexity of motives and...

Agency and Bodily Autonomy in Systems of Care examines how humans and their bodies become enmeshed in systems of care. This book establishes the need for advocacy and policy change to improve health...

This study explores how opposing ideological work, intended as a counterterrorism strategy decodes and defuses al-Qaeda's role in the current radicalization process in conflict and non-conflict areas...

Alexandre Kojève: A Man of influence offers a multi-faceted approach to the work of Alexandre Kojève in which 11 international scholars combine their perspectives on key aspects of the Russo-French...