Books published by Lexington Books

This study examines the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian diaspora communities in Sweden during the Cold War. The author analyzes their links with both their host and homeland societies and investigates their clandestine efforts to undermine the communist regimes of their homelands.

This book offers an original theory and set of cinematic case studies to examine how we contend with "wicked problems," important, entrenched, and far-reaching political and social challenges (such as climate change or mental illness) that resist ordinary policies and problem solving.

This book offers a re-reading of Chaka to show that Mofolo astutely deconstructs, and then reconstructs, King Chaka into a messianic figure whose life trajectory and destiny mirrors that of Jesus Christ in the Bible's New Testament in order to subvert the colonial ethos of the time.

The Construction of Metaphoric Text and Talk: A Discourse Analytic Approach argues that in view of their omnipresence in human thinking and action, metaphors play a very important role in discourse construction and organization and this role can be textural and textual. In order to explore the textual role of metaphors, Meizhen Liao proposes that metaphors in discourse be treated as a complex adaptive system (CAS), which is further composed of two sub-systems, a micro one consisted of the tenor and the vehicle and a macro one made up of different metaphors. The dynamic interaction within the micro system between the tenor and the vehicle in terms of mapping, as well as among the macro system of all the metaphors in the text or talk via competition, cooperation, or complementation contributes to the construction and organization of discourse as an adaptive process in pursuit for the goal or goals of the discourse. In the process of the interaction, emergent textual patterns develop and an adequate analysis of the patterns at both micro and macro as well as deep and surface levels of discourse will shed light on the true nature and pattern of human thinking and action. The author concludes that as metaphor has become entrenched in our conceptual system the study of metaphor as a complex adaptive system in discourse be conducted in its own right.

In a letter from May 10, 1852 Adam von Doß, Schopenhauer declared himself a Buddhist. This book is the first study to do justice to Schopenhauer's passion for Buddhism, reconstructing the notions of Buddhism he acquired through his Buddhist readings as well as their influence on his thought.

James Buchanan Elmore (1857-1942): Literary Ethnographer and Folk Poet details the life and work of Elmore as a "folk poet," emphasizing the importance in the cultural understanding of the ethnographic insights he gave as a farmer in the midwestern United States that experienced dramatic social change after the Civil War.

This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism and brings together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women's menopausal positionality within literary works.

This book examines the history and fallout of Christian orthodoxy, especially evangelical orthodoxy in the United States. It concludes that orthodoxy functions as an ideology of power as much as a barometer of "correct belief" and that understanding this dimension of orthodoxy can help inhibit its most dangerous outcomes.

Volume one of Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or explores the crisis of the modern secular void-with its attendant doubt, ennui, and alienation-from the first-person perspective of an aesthete who, lacking any epistemic or moral foundations, grows increasingly obsessed with what he calls "the interesting." In a close explication of the history of that aesthetic concept and a thorough exegesis of this volume, Kierkegaard's Concept of the Interesting: The Aesthetic Gulf Voracious Hermeneutics in Either/Or I explores the aesthete's views on beauty, opera and music, tragedy and comedy, time, unhappiness, the difference between suffering and pain, boredom, eroticism, deception, and seduction, along with the ways in which these precipitate the ambition for increasingly interesting experiences. In this examination, Anthony Eagan thoroughly reveals Kierkegaard's own perspective on how an exclusively aesthetic attitude can lead to an ever-more voracious tendency to interpret the world in a private, self-defeating, and unscrupulous fashion-one arising from and ultimately leading to moral solipsism and despair. This book develops a comprehensive understanding of Either/Or I that is crucial for understanding the rest of Kierkegaard's authorship.

Punk Beyond the Music investigates where punk has manifested and mutated, tracing its transformation from a music genre into a far-reaching cultural aesthetic. Focusing on punk's most recurring traits-DIY, attitude, outsider identities, symbols, and politics-the author examines their appearance in various arts and cultural practices.

India, Citizenship, and Refugee Crisis: Political History of Hatred and Sorrow examines the effects of the Partition of India in 1947 from economic and social points of view.

Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato's most read dialogue. The book argues that to read the Republic through the lens of necessity is to reimagine what this pervasive concept might mean for us and for the limits of human reason.

This book offers advice to academics on building resilience and resistance to forces that undermine well-being by drawing on ancient wisdom traditions, indigenous cultures, Jungian psychology, and contemplative practices from around the world.

This timely volume assembles leading authorities on the theory and applications of Logic-Based Therapy & Consultation, the world's foremost evidence-based philosophical counseling modality, demonstrating its broad scope and potential for tackling life problems for diverse populations.

Through a series of African case studies, this book critically examines the complexities of recent resource discoveries of mineral, oil, and gas to determine whether Africa stands on the cusp of a post-resource-curse era or if historical patterns of the resource paradox will continue to persist.

This book investigates modern cultural traditions and their transformations in Poland. Designed as a series of case studies analyzing music festivals, city parades, rural rituals, and contemporary bachelorette parties, this volume creates a rich panorama of Poland's cultural, social, and political transformations.

This book takes the city of Trieste as a starting point to think critically and comparatively about migration, border regimes, and memories of displacement.

This collection explores the shift in focus towards South Korea as a beacon of future societies, and examines South Korea's transformation into a smart country with advanced industrial capitalism and explosive soft and hard power effects, positioning it as a key architect of societies to come.

This book demonstrates the intersection of poetry and the practice of Jungian analysis through the metaphor. It enriches language in the emotionally alive psychoanalytic process and establishes that interpretation uses the metaphorical process in the client and the analyst to restore the diminished metaphor capacity.

Consisting of contributions from international scholars in diverse fields, Beauclair and Toth's collection asks how humanity might free "nature" from the demands of human action and human thought without mendaciously reinscribing humanity's distance from it or denying a proximity that is only traversable by artificial means.

Digital Technology and Communication Policy in Korea: From Infrastructure to Artificial Intelligence explores the overlap of politics, policy, and digital development in Korea. Despite attention to digital development and its socio-economic effects across the nation, more research must be devoted to studying how Korean communication policymakers and authorities have coped with innovative technologies and a rapidly changing communication landscape. Chang Yong Son argues that communications policymakers must balance regulatory safety and security commitments against the promotion of innovation and growth in the communication market. Scholars of communication, media studies, technology studies, and Asian studies will find this book of particular interest.

Education and International Development, 2000-2020 advances the claim that there exists a liberal theory of international education. The author argues that the assumed harmony of this model is the main source of dispute in the field of education and international development.

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 of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer.

Concentrating on economic incentives, climate extremes, and fear of violence factors, this book presents a complete picture of what happens to migrants from the time they leave to the time they arrive in the United States-as well as the difficulties encountered by those deported back to their countries of origin.

This book explores Africa's complex environmental security issue using a multidisciplinary, historical, regional, theoretical, and spatial approach. The scope and gravity of the topics explored by the contributors illustrate why environmental security is an existential threat to the development and survival of Africa.

This anthology outlines a cadre of alt-right groups, conspiracy theories, and other forms of stigmatized knowledge threatening our society and presents a compelling case for the continued relevancy of the Frankfurt School of Critical Social Theory.

This book explores science fantasy, a hybrid genre that draws from both science fiction and fantasy. It delves into how science fantasy serves as a medium to shape the present and build a better future through memories and explores uncharted territories where science and imagination intersect.

This book makes the case for a new theorisation of Song as a multimodal storytelling sonic act, one that has implications for songwriters, scholars, and the way in which we think about music and song.

Through the work of three politically persecuted women writers and two modern poets, this book analyzes loss in contemporary Albanian literature explored in relation to pain, grief, memory, death and freedom, questioning the meeting point between life writing and poetry, and the point where they part ways.

Refiguring the Sacred offers perspectives on Ricoeur's life-long reflections about religion. This collection includes two essays by Ricoeur and new interpretations of some of his most significant writings by several noted Ricoeur scholars.