Books published by Lexington Books

In this book, the natures and roles of both guru and disciple-as depicted in the Upani¿ads and Dharma ¿¿stras-are discussed and further developed into a paradigm by which to comprehend the ancient and modern expressions of the Guru Tradition. This study is conducted from the perspective of Advaita Ved¿nta, or nondualism.

This book explores the language maintenance of Russian abroad, emphasizing the role of educational ventures and transnational communications facilitated by the internet, pointing to shifts in values and migration expectations, and reflecting on the evolution of diasporic communities and the dynamic adaptation of the Russian language.

This comparative study of teacher attrition in the Global South and OECD countries examines the exceptionality of twenty selected learning leaders in the D.R. Congo, Ghana, and Uganda who have stayed in the teaching profession.

In Climate Crisis and the Kleptocene the author argues that the nullification of all value that competes with exchange value is inherent to the ontology of capitalism, including value associated with sentient life. Despite recent reform efforts to address the climate crisis, capitalism's kleptocratic logic is catastrophic for planetary stability.

Reading Luther and Kierkegaard in dialogue, Carl S. Hughes develops an alternative to the literalism and other-worldliness often characteristic of modern Christianity. Clouds of the Cross in Luther and Kierkegaard's account of revelation as mystical or apophatic theology offers provocative resources for thinking about Christ and the Bible today.

David Botting defends Aristotle as an empiricist against those who see him as a rationalist, focusing on Aristotle's account of how we acquire the first principles of science. The author argues that Aristotle's account is empiricist and that first principles are, perhaps surprisingly, known inferentially and not by intuition.

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa examines perceptions of the female body as both a subject and an object of aesthetic discourse in the works of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists. The book includes discussions of several artistic mediums including photography, painting, videos, and installations.

This book argues for the existence of the Queer Coming of Age genre, in which films reveal the unique challenges experienced by queer people during this time of their lives, positing that these films are driven by a political undercurrent advocating for queer acceptance and that they provide guidance for queer people to understand their own lives.

This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. The chapters include discussions of company management, transmedia presence, and audience engagement as well as content analyses of cultural representations.

Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity shows that the "discovery" of the New World had a transforming impact as a historical event with deep philosophical repercussions, especially for traditional presuppositions about human nature and knowledge.

This book focuses on the role of music and performing arts in facilitating a mind-body unity for positive health.

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott's representations of health and illness. It investigates not only the ways in which her stories critically explore issues of well-being and affliction in nineteenth-century America but also the reparative strategies that her narratives make available.

Centering lived experiences, this volume reveals how discrimination by those in positions of power impact vulnerable and marginalized populations in the areas of criminal justice, sex and violence, immigration, racism, prison, and health.

This edited volume addresses the narrative and stylistic approaches to imbuing natural settings in audiovisual media with a psychological dimension, or, in other words, configuring a 'landscape' to function beyond its typical role as a backdrop-and the cultural contexts for this aesthetic impulse.

This book explores the visual dimensions of metal music from the specific socio-historic, geographic, and political positionality of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Expressive Self argues the nature of the self lies in the fact that only in one's own case are acts of expression actual episodes of one's self-consciousness. The author provides novel accounts of Moore's paradox, self-deception, and McKinsey's paradox and addresses challenges from self-reference and first-person authority.

This book argues that the primary motivation for the incarnation of God the Son is divine-human co-dominion over the cosmos. The author utilizes both biblical and systematic theology to parse supralapsarian and infralapsarian motivations which the incarnation answers in enabling humanity to fulfill God's intended vocation.

This book examines Ghana's foreign policy in the post-independence era, focusing on the enduring legacy of Kwame Nkrumah, providing new insight into Nkrumah's attempts to reinforce, articulate, and communicate his vision of Pan-Africanism.

This book captures the voices and lived experiences of Black fathers, offering a strengths-based perspective on the significant roles they play in the lives of their children and families. The volume examines three key areas: health, parenting, and community.

Tracing the origins and examining the dimensions of homeland security challenges, this book analyzes these crises, deepens understanding of the Nigerian security dilemma, and seeks pathways to a more secure homeland.

Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth explores commonly perceived limitations to living nonviolently. Centering nonviolence as a sacrosanct ideal and calling for a radical reconceptualization of how violence is understood, Sanjay Lal shows that the value of a nonviolent approach to ethics has been needlessly under-emphasized.

A Hero in All of Us?: Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV helps us better understand twenty-first century heroism in the United States through the lens of popular television shows. Contributions explore how the concept of heroism has been simultaneously both elevated to the supernatural and democratized to the mundane.

By drawing parallels between the global indigenous rights movement and the Kurdish struggle, the book critically analyses the discourse about Kurdishness constituted by the Kurdish political movement in Turkey from an indigeneity perspective.

This book is a study of Soviet and Russian intelligence operations against the centers for Soviet studies in North American academia. Special attention is paid to the historical roots of contemporary Russian intelligence operations targeting American-Russian academics and promoting Russian state interests in the ongoing war against Ukraine.

This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The authors question literature's manifold relationship to trauma is undertaken in a conscientious dialogue with ethics and politics.

This book examines Taylor Swift's art, her public image, and Swiftie fan communities.

Affective Imageries examines the political use of images depicting wounded bodies in conflict and post-conflict contexts. It explores how poetry, photography, and art construct affective images. The book analyses the creation and mobilisation of these images, shaping perception and international response, particularly in Timor-Leste.

This book analyzes Jewish themes, characters, and contributions in science fiction and fantasy of the post-Holocaust period, from the U.S., Europe, the Soviet Union, South America, and Israel. The author explores the ways in which comic books, parody films, and emerging literary subgenres contested prejudice and embraced counterculture.

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of "emergent metalepsis" that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events. Christopher Carter situates this rhetoric within debates about the Anthropocene, highlighting the irony whereby our most trenchant self-analyses become mass commodities.

This book analyzes information published by the news website Sputnik Srbija during the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to explore contemporary Serbian media and the connection between Russian propaganda and Serbian nationalism.