Books published by Lexington Books

Merleau-Ponty and a Phenomenology of PTSD begins from the premise that trauma can be better treated if it is better understood. To that end, this book builds a prismatic account of trauma, encompassing neuroscience, psychology, and phenomenology in order to establish that trauma is an embodied, adaptive response to a world without meaning.

Cross-referencing neurobiological knowledge with the invariance hypothesis, relevance theory, and frame semantics, Metaphor from the Ground Up: Understanding Figurative Language in Context unifies metaphor theory, fundamentally rethinks "context," and moves linguistics into the twenty-first century.

Between 1919 and 1923, the last aftershock of the First World War was fought between Greece and the nascent Turkish nation. On its centenary, the contributions in this volume analyze the onset, conduct, and aftermath of this last of the wars of the Great War.

This book examines the mediated construction of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and its rise to public and political prominence by way of its direct connection with the NFL. More broadly, this book explores how this relationship situates in and through the sports/media complex.

This book explains the position of the rebels in Southeastern Ukraine. It follows the rebellion's fortunes after Moscow did not repeat the Crimea scenario in Donbas, analyzes the logic of armed struggle and the phenomenon of the Russian Spring, and introduces prospects for solutions.

Build a Better Vision Statement combines decades of scientific research on vision statements with practical advice from thirty leaders of well-known and award-winning companies. This book is a must-have for any business leader or entrepreneur looking for a low-cost, high-impact, proven approach for growing a business.

Prominent political analyst and historian Lichtman presents thirteen historical factors, or 'keys' that have successfully predicted the outcome of presidential elections from 1860 to 2004. Read this book not only for a surprising look at the electoral process, but also for tips on calling the election in 2008.

The First Great Political Realist is a succinct and penetrating analysis of one of the ancient world's foremost political realists, Kautilya. Kautilya's treatise Arthashastra stands as one of the great political books of the ancient world, its ideas on the science of politics strikingly similar to those of Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Clausewitz, and even Sun Tsu. Roger Boesche's excellent commentary on Kautilya's voluminous text draws out the essential realist arguments for modern political analysis and demonstrates the continued relevance of Kautilya's work to modern Indian strategic thinking and our understanding of the relationship between politics and economics. Striking a balance between textual analysis and secondary scholarship, Boesche's work will be an enduring contribution to the study of ancient Indian history, Eastern political thought, and international relations.

Offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. This book contains essays, which explore the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle.

In The San Francisco Nexus in World War II: Freedoms Found, Liberties Lost, and the Atomic Bomb, Meza tells the story of important events in the San Francisco Bay Area that have consequences still felt to date. He traces the invention of the atomic bomb, from a speculative design for a nuclear weapon sketched on a chalkboard at Berkeley by theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer and helped made real by "Big Science" that was pioneered by his friend and colleague, experimental physicist Ernest Lawrence. During this time, Black Americans migrated to San Francisco to escape the Jim Crow South, finding new freedoms, good jobs, and a leader in a singer-turned-welder named Joseph James. Meza shows how James fought for and won an end to segregation in his union, taking a large step toward the civil rights movement. At the same time, Japanese Americans were forced from their homes by a tragically misguided presidential executive order, upheld by the US Supreme Court, illustrating the fragility of liberty in America. These events continue to shape the world today.

The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a post-Christian society. Focusing primarily upon the thought of 20th century German émigré political scientist Eric Voegelin, the book argues that we cannot understand the globalized world in which we live unless we appreciate the lasting influence of the various "End of History" speculators-specifically, G.W.F Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, and Francis Fukuyama. Through a Voegelinian lens, he dissects the relationship between these three thinkers, also claiming that while Voegelin may have misunderstood Hegel, his critiques of the Hegelian approach to history offer fresh and important perspectives on the contemporary world. This makes a forceful argument that the idea of history as a teleological path, leading toward some goal-whether perfect harmony between nations, a technocratic utopia, a return to some romanticized idyllic "state of nature," or what Kojève and Fukuyama called the "universal and homogenous State"-has vast, and perverse, implications for the trajectory of American foreign and domestic policy.

The Making of American Whiteness: The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia changes the narrative about the origins of race and Whiteness in America. With an exhaustive array of archival documents, Carmen P. Thompson demonstrates not only that Whiteness predates European expansion to the Americas as evidenced in their participation in the transatlantic slave trade since the fifteenth century, but more importantly that it was the principal dynamic in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony in what would become the United States of America. And just as the system of White supremacy was the principal framework that fueled the transatlantic slave trade, it likewise was the framework that drove the organization of civil society in Virginia, including the organization and structure of the colony's laws, social, political, and economic policies as well as its system of governance. The book shows what Whiteness looked like in everyday life in the early seventeenth century, in a way eerily prescient to Whiteness today.

This collection brings a fresh, international lens to Chopin studies. The essays reflect on the experience of studying and teaching Chopin in countries outside of the United States, as well as frame studies of particular Chopin stories--including some lesser-known stories--within specific cultural contexts.

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subculture's emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a culture industry. Conner and Dickens explore the concept of "commodified resistance" as the mechanism by which the movement's politically dissident features were removed and its place as a multi-billion-dollar industry made possible. Ultimately, this text advocates the continued utility of the culture industry thesis through an empirical analysis of the EDM subculture.Check out an interview with the author on the New Books Network podcast here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/electronic-dance-music

In this book, Lindsey A. Sherrill explores the exponential growth of true crime podcasting, including the role of the ubiquitous Serial podcast in the growth of the industry. Using both demographic population analysis and interviews with podcast hosts and producers, Sherill demonstrates that true crime podcasts exist as hybrid organizations, with diverse goals ranging from entertainment to criminal justice reform advocacy to journalistic inquiry. These competing motivations of podcast producers are explored, along with the ethical quandaries that emerge in the process of telling true crime stories. Sherrill traces true crime podcasting back to the infancy of the medium and examines the influences, innovations, and events that created the true crime podcast ecosystem, as well as its influence on real cases in the United States. Scholars of communication, sociology, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.

The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur provides a critical framework for understanding the phenomenology of revelation through a series of close readings that serve as the basis for an imagined dialogue between Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. Adam J. Graves distinguishes between two dominant approaches to revelation: a "radical" approach that seeks to disclose a pre-linguistic experience of revelation through a radicalization of the phenomenological reduction, and a "hermeneutical" one that characterizes revelation as an eruption of meaning arising from our encounter with concrete symbols, narratives, and texts. According to Graves, the radical approach is often driven by a misplaced concern for maintaining philosophical rigor and for avoiding theological biases, or "contaminations." This preoccupation leads to a process of "counter-contamination" in which the concept of revelation is ultimately estranged from the phenomenon's rich historical and linguistic content. While Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology may do a better job of accommodating the concrete content of revelation, it does so at the price of having to renouncing the kind of "presuppositionlessness" generally associated with phenomenological method. Ultimately, Graves argues that a more nuanced appreciation of the complex nature of our linguistic inheritance enables us to reconceive the relationship between revelation and philosophical thought.

This book explores twelve themes that reflect Beethoven's compositional development and thought. The result is a fascinating new portrait of the composer and his music, and a panorama of the world of thought, norms, and values that he navigated.

This book analyzes the impact of white Christian nationalism on American society, using a quantitative-statistical approach. It argues that citizens are more likely to support nationalist, inequitable, and oppressive philosophies when they are presented in racialized and religious terms, justified by fear, and linked to religious beliefs.

Drawing on intellectual history, ethics, political economy and jurisprudence, Pluralism, Property, and Radical Transformation offers a novel pluralistic property theory. Acknowledging the tragic conflicts between goods, it reveals the limits of theory and defends the radical freedom of communities to transform their property systems.

Focusing on the early months of the war in Ukraine, this book presents quantitative and qualitative analyses of the main television news coverage in 11 countries across the geopolitical world. Contributors reveal both common and nation-specific themes and angles, indicative of an unfettered relationship between news media and government.

Peirce on Habits explores the principle of habit, its mode of being, and its implications for defining humans as "creatures of habit." Drawing on the perspective of American philosopher Charles S. Peirce, it addresses issues in current habit theory, from general ontological concerns to their impact on cognition and subjectivity.

Using Kenya as a case study, this book demonstrates the effects and limitations of foreign aid on development and human security in poor countries to reshape the processes for the benefit of both the donors and the intended beneficiaries.

Devaluing Public Apologies in the Age of Social Media argues that apologies are losing their meaning because people treat them as strategical tools while ignoring their ethical implications. Recent apologies by celebrities, politicians, and brands are examined to show how apologies need to be rooted in values to be effective.

Religions and brands address fundamental human needs and motivations and their societal functionalities exhibit certain parallels. This book explores this proposition through an analogical abstraction, in accompany with four case studies to assess the hypothetical aspect of this comparative approach in a real-world context.

Chronicling the forgotten history of Europe's early Muslim communities across the continent, this book reconceptualizes the "age of empire" through the interconnected lives of imperialists, journalists, and Muslim activists who attempted to establish a place for Islam in European society.

This volume explores the human-technology relations that both shape modern educational settings and have a decisive influence on what education is and will be in the future. The contributors present empirical evidence to challenge and reframe the goal of education in relation to technology.

This book provides a historically informed perspective of First Lady of China Soong Mayling's legacy within the context of World War II history, international cultural and military affairs, and transnational geopolitics inflected through gender.

This book provides perspectives from different refugee groups and the resettlement agencies that smooth their transition into a new life context. It discusses how they overcome displacement and cope with trauma and how they remain vulnerable to marginality and delays in economic independence.

George Eliot and Her Women argues that the Victorian writer George Eliot (1819 - 1880) was not only keenly aware of women's issues but more deeply engaged with them than she has yet received credit for. Proposing that her work is still misread and misunderstood because of her unusual and complex relationship to gender and an inattention to the complexity of her female characters and their representation, the book examines Eliot's construction and treatment of female characters throughout her prose fiction and her poetry to show that she was very much attuned to and supportive of women's issues. Demonstrating that Eliot was unable to speak publicly on women's issues because of her complicated private life, George Eliot and Her Women demonstrates that she nonetheless advocated for women's rights, particularly access to education, through her fiction and poetry, using her creative works to inspire sympathy and promote awareness about women's struggles in nineteenth-century Britain.

This book examines the philosophical and spiritual facets of religions like Regla de Ocha, Palo, Abakuá, and Vodou, and how deeply embedded they are in Cuban popular culture and art, be it music, the visual arts, film, or literature.