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Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now
Edited by Laury Magnus and Walter W. Cannon
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 306 pages • Part of the Shakespeare and the Stage series
Paperback 978 1 6839 3202 4 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published as hardback 978 1 6839 2000 0 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3201 7 • $40.50 / £31.00
Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds examines special listening situations like overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides; it explores complex relationships between sound and sight, dialogue and blocking, nonEnglish languages, and non-verbal relationships inherent in noise, sounds, and music, ending with a discussion with ASC Actors.
Theater / History & Criticism
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education
The Play of the In-Between
By Catherine Homan
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 218 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9446 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4448 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9445 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between provides an account of poetic education as an alternative to aesthetic education. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics and philosophy of play, Homan argues that rather than the cultivation of taste, education is the cultivation of formation and a learning to listen.
Aesthetics
Dewey and the Aesthetic Unconscious The Vital Depths of Experience
By Bethany Henning
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the American Philosophy Series series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2021 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0224 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Bethany Henning argues that within the naturalistic strains of American philosophy, there is an implicit theory of the unconscious that finds its fullest expression within the work of John Dewey. Although the unconscious contributes to all experience, it plays a principal role in experiences that are emphatically aesthetic.
Aesthetics
On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality
A Collection of Pragmaticist Inquires into the Epistemology of Artistic Creation and Evaluation of Artworks
By Dan Nesher
Hamilton Books
May 2022 • 370 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7295 5 • $44.99 / £35.00
eBook 978 0 7618 2962 2 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book is a collection of pragmatist inquiries into the epistemology of artistic creation and evaluation of artworks. It offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and artworks are beautiful when proven aesthetic true representations of reality.
Criticism & Theory
The Incorporeal Corpse Performing Disability in the Liminal Stage
By Jason B. Dorwart
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 158 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4507 4 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5081 1 • $45.00 / £30.99
Disabled characters have been written with an assumption that they would be played by nondisabled actors. In this book, Jason B. Dorwart argues that a recent influx of disabled actors into the profession is changing the way that we reconcile the reality of disability with the fictional framing of performance.
Theater / History & Criticism
Beyond Words
Philosophy,
Fiction, and the Unsayable
By Timothy Cleveland
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 140 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1484 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 7936 4858 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Beyond Words argues that some works of fiction and poetry are especially, perhaps even best, suited to expanding our awareness and understanding into the nature of things otherwise unsayable and unconceived. Such literary works do philosophy, showing us something that a theoretical— scientific or philosophical—discourse cannot literally say.
Aesthetics
Heidegger and Music
Edited by Casey Rentmeester and Jeff R. Warren
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 336 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5413 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4144 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, utilizes Heidegger’s philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice.
Aesthetics
Second Nature Comic Performance and Philosophy
Edited by Josephine Gray and Lisa Trahair
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1509 1 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 7866 5107 7 • $38.00 / £30.99
Examining Henri Bergson’s work, philosophy, and the body, this volume explores the history and philosophy of comedy, film, psychoanalysis and the comic performance of the future, creating a theoretical and practicebased framework for the field.
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Embodied Mind A Constructive Engagement
By Matthew MacKenzie Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 196 pages • Part of the Critical Inquiries in Comparative Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6012 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0138 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind, broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism.
Buddhist
Spectrality and Survivance Living the Anthropocene
By Marija Grech Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
May 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1415 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 4162 2 • $35.00 / £27.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1417 9 • $33.00 / £25.00
This monograph interrogates one of the key paradigms used in contemporary discussions of the Anthropocene—the idea that in the present geological epoch the human species inscribes itself onto the planet, and that those marks might be all we leave behind.
Critical Thinking
Justice and Harmony Cross-Cultural Ideals in Conflict and Cooperation
By Joshua Mason
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 292 pages • Part of the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series Hardback 978 1 7936 5497 7 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4984 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Justice and harmony typically stand as opposing ideals of liberal and communitarian philosophies. Joshua Mason argues that engaging their Chinese counterparts, zhengyi and hexie, through cross-cultural hermeneutics reveals a pattern of interrelated concerns that can overcome this binary opposition and reconcile these global values.
Eastern
Contingency and Plasticity in Everyday Technologies
Edited by Natasha Lushetich; Iain Campbell and Dominic Smith
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Media Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7157 8 • $125.00 / £96.00
eBook 978 1 5381 1592 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book theorises technology and its host of social, material, and epistemic transformation techniques, tools, and methods as indeterminate through sixteen methodologically diverse contributions from media philosophy, art and architectural theory, mathematics, computer science, and anthropology scholars.
Epistemology
The Poverty of Philosophy Readings in Non and Other Philosophies or Arts of Immanence
By
Philip Beitchman
Hamilton Books
December 2022 • 414 pages
Hardback 978 0 7618 7384 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 0 7618 3853 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
The Poverty of Philosophy: Readings in Non and Other Philosophies and Arts of Imminence includes an 8,000 word overture, “Poverty of Philosophy” introducing non-philosophy and its progenitor, François Laruelle.
Comparative Philosophy
Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
By Graham Mayeda
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7210 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2088 8 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7209 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
What is culture? What can we learn from art, architecture, and fashion about how people relate? Can cultures embody ethical and moral ideals? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book on the cultural philosophy of three preeminent Japanese philosophers of the early twentieth century, Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo.
Eastern
The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming NeoConfucianism in Korea
The Chonon (Testament) by Chong Chedu (Hagok)
Translated with commentary by Edward Y. J. Chung Lexington Books
May 2022 • 410 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1471 1 • $46.99 / £36.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4698 8 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1470 4 • $44.50 / £34.00
The Great Synthesis of Wang Yangming Neo-Confucianism in Korea, a pioneering study of Chong Chedu (Hagok, 1649–1736) and Korean Yangming Neo-Confucianism, includes an annotated translation of the Chonon, Hagok’s most important work on self-cultivation, and a comprehensive introduction to his life, scholarship, and thought.
Eastern
Epistemic Paternalism Conceptions, Justifications and Implications
Edited by Guy Axtell and Amiel Bernal
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 332 pages • Part of the Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7123 3 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 5732 2 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1574 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
This volume considers forms of information manipulation and restriction in contemporary society, paying special attention to contemporary paternalistic practices in big data and scientific research, as the way in which the flow of information or knowledge might be curtailed by the manipulations of a small body of experts or algorithms.
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Exposing the Roots of Constructivism Nominalism and the Ontology of Knowledge
By R. Scott Smith
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 202 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1246 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2470 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Though nominalism is a major presupposition in academia and western society, R. Scott Smith shows that nominalism undermines all knowledge whatsoever. In light of the many clear examples of knowledge that we do have, nominalism should be replaced by a realist view of properties.
Epistemology
Hume and the Demands of Philosophy Science, Skepticism, and Moderation
By Nathan I. Sasser
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 228 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2321 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3225 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that Hume is a radical epistemic skeptic who gives only practical reasons for retaining belief in sensory beliefs and the deliverances of reason. He advises us to take a moderate approach to the demands of philosophy, since they sometimes diverge from the demands of life.
Epistemology
How to Play Philosophy
By Michael Picard
Hamilton Books
February 2022 • 248 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7306 8 • $24.99 / £18.99 eBook 978 0 7618 3075 5 • $23.50 / £17.99
How to Play Philosophy is a series of lyrical, creative essays that explore timeless and timely ideas about who we are and how we live.
MIT-trained philosopher Michael Picard shares ideas of numerous philosophers from conflicting traditions and builds an intellectual background to enable readers to draw their own conclusions.
Essays
A Consequentialist Defense of Libertarianism
By Richard Fumerton
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3206 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2043 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3205 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
In defending freedom, most libertarians have appealed to a moral framework that puts an emphasis on the concept of moral rights. Rejecting that approach, Richard Fumerton offers a fresh, nuanced, and balanced “consequentialist” perspective on the importance of defending liberty.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
For and Against Scientism Science, Methodology, and the Future of Philosophy
Edited
by Moti Mizrahi Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6333 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3344 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Does scientism pose an existential threat to philosophy, as some philosophers think, or is it a way to make philosophy as ‘successful’ as science? This book intends is to put forward a fruitful dialogue about scientism and its implications for the future of philosophy as an academic discipline.
Epistemology
Materialism, Minds, and Cartesian Dualism
By Robert Francis Almeder
Hamilton Books
March 2022 • 130 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7293 1 • $32.99 / £25.00 eBook 978 0 7618 2948 8 • $31.00 / £23.99
The book takes well-established, scientific evidence on consciousness to interrogate, and re envisions questions of personal reincarnation and thus of the mind/body problem. Methodologically, the basis of the book is rooted in the careful argumentation and logical appraisal of classical materialism and the history of the mind-body problem.
Epistemology
Rethinking Philosophy with Borges, Zambrano, Paz, and Plato
By Hugo Moreno
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 240 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3928 8 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9295 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The author argues that Borges’ Ficciones, Zambrano’s Claros del bosque, and Paz’s El mono gramático call into question the conventional distinction between literature and philosophy, and that each text embodies an alternative way of doing philosophy.
Essays
Between Desire and Reason Rights Discourse at the Crossroads
By Fernando Simón-Yarza
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 240 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4809 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4407 7 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1441 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book offers an in-depth account of the most important moral debates surrounding human rights today. They are the basis of legitimacy for modern Western civilisation, yet there still exists differences between our common view on the importance of rights and our profound disagreement on their meaning and content.
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Caregiving, Carebots, and Contagion
By Michael C. Brannigan Lexington Books
March 2022 • 174 pages • Part of the Revolutionary Bioethics series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4918 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9195 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This work explores caring robots’ lifesaving benefits, particularly during contagion, while probing the threat they pose to interpersonal engagement and genuine human caregiving. As humans, we have a binding moral responsibility to care for the Other, and genuine caring demands our embodied, human-to-human presence.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Connection to Nature, Deep Ecology, and Conservation Social Science Human-Nature Bonding and Protecting the Natural World
By Christian Diehm - Foreword by Holmes Rolston III
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 192 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2422 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4208 8 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2421 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores human-nature connectedness through deep ecological philosophy and conservation social science. mphasizing ecologicallyinclusive identities, it argues that connection to nature is more important than many environmental advocates realize and that deep ecology contributes much to the increasingly pressing conversations about it.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Empathy and Ethics
Edited by Magnus Englander and Susi Ferrarello
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 526 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5410 6 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4113 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
The authors offer a phenomenological reflection on the problem of the interconnection between empathy and ethics; essential reading for professionals and scholars of philosophy, psychiatry, health science, psychology, and sociology.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Gandhi’s Global Legacy Moral Methods and Modern Challenges
Edited by Veena R. Howard
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 380 pages • Part of the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4036 9 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0376 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This interdisciplinary collection brings Gandhi’s ideas into conversation with issues seldom discussed in Gandhi studies. The contributors engage with crosscultural and cross-historical time periods, contributing in important ways to the ever-expanding field of Gandhi studies.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Confucian and Stoic Perspectives on Forgiveness
By Sean McAleer
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 216 pages • Part of the Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion series
Hardback 978 1 7936 2264 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2655 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Confucian and Stoic Perspectives on Forgiveness is a study in comparative philosophy exploring the absence of forgiveness in classical Confucianism and Roman Stoicism as well as the alternatives to forgiveness that these traditions offer.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Edibility and In Vitro Meat Ethical Considerations
By Rachel Robison-Greene
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1466 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 4674 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book considers the arguments for and against the implementation of in vitro meat technology. Rachel Robison-Greene argues that in light of emerging technology, we should rethink the ethical dimensions of what makes something “edible.”
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Ethical Silence Kierkegaard on Communication, Education, and Humility
By Sergia Hay
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 126 pages • Part of the New Kierkegaard Research series
Paperback 978 1 7936 1450 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4483 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1449 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book analyzes Søren Kierkegaard’s message about the ethical necessity of silence in the context of our current information age flooded with sound and words. The author investigates the question of how being silent can make us more ethical.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Gender Violence Resistance, Resilience, and Autonomy
By Sylvia Jane Burrow
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 126 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7885 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8868 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Sylvia Jane Burrow explores self-confidence as integral to autonomy development within everyday contexts threatening gender violence, arguing that self-defense training is significant to resistance and resilience.
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Global Development, Ethics, and Epistemic Injustice Rethinking Theory and Practice
By Anna Malavisi
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1691 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6920 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book offers a critical analysis of the theory and practice of global development. Using how Chagas disease has been understood and addressed as an example of a failing of global development, Anna Malavisi argues for a rethinking from an ethico-epistemic perspective using a strong ethical approach.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy
By Ivan Cerovac
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 206 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3676 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6775 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book characterizes Mill as a political instrumentalist and an epistemic democrat, analyzing the epistemic arguments he uses to support his political proposals. Exploring his endeavor to resolve the conflict between political and epistemic values, it sets the epistemic criteria as a basis for unifying Mill’s political thought.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Menkiti’s Moral Man
By Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1583 1 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5848 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Menkiti’s Moral Man provides an original interpretation of Ifeanyi Menkiti’s conception of person, and one that carries significant implications for his metaphysics and moral philosophy. It offers fresh insights on moral agency, moral status, and justice as well as the ontology of living and post-mortem persons in community.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Moral Responsibility beyond Our Fingertips
Collective Responsibility, Leaders, and Attributionism
By Eugene Schlossberger
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 264 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3357 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3583 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
We are responsible not only for what we think and feel but for what others do and for what we would have done. This book expands and updates the original attributionist theory of responsibility and applies it to pressing contemporary issues such as collective responsibility, leaders’ responsibility for their followers’ acts, and addiction.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Heroism and Wisdom, Italian Style From Roman Imperialists to Sicilian Magistrates
By Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Hardback 978 1 6839 3357 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6839 3588 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
Heroism and Wisdom is an interdisciplinary work dissecting the lives, philosophies, and works of fourteen historically significant Italian figures to examine the topics of Italian history, culture, and moral psychology of notions such as practical wisdom, heroism, authenticity, honor, will to power, and leading a meaningful human life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Just Immigration in the Americas A Feminist Account
By Allison B. Wolf
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 234 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4984 3 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 3332 2 • $132.00 / £102.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1334 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Using testimonies from immigrants and examples of immigrant policies, this book proposes an interdisciplinary, feminist approach to immigration justice.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Moral Judgement
An Introduction through Anglo-American, German and French Philosophy
By Étienne Brown
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1516 9 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7866 5176 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book integrates Kantian and Aristotelian reflections on the nature and justification of moral judgements. Arguing that moral judgements are ultimately grounded in the normativity of practical identities, the book concludes that it is through obligations tied to our multifaceted identities that we can ultimately understand how we ought to act.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Moral Theory
An Introduction, Third Edition
By Mark Timmons
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 368 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5231 7 • $110.00 / £85.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2324 4 • $48.00 / £37.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5233 1 • $46.50 / £36.00
Moral Theory explores historically important and currently debated moral theories, including divine command theory, relativism, natural law theory, consequentialism, egoism, Kant’s ethics, ethics of prima facie duties, and virtue and care ethics. The third edition features a new chapter on contractualism and an updated guide to terminology.
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Nanotechnology Regulation and Public Discourse
Edited by Iris Eisenberger; Angela Kallhoff and Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 308 pages • Part of the Philosophy, Technology and Society series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4790 0 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 8932 2 • $133.00 / £102.00 eBook 978 1 7866 0894 9 • $37.00 / £28.00
Rooted in different disciplines such as ethics, ecology, law, social and political sciences, this volume explore the normative approaches, societal practices, and legal mechanisms which have emerged in the nano-field over the last two decades.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Odera Oruka and the Right to a Human Minimum
An African Philosopher’s Defense of Human Dignity and Environment
By Michael Kamau Mburu
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 158 pages • Part of the African
Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5002 3 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0030 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book advances Oruka’s argument that the right to a human minimum is the most basic and necessary (though not sufficient) means to ensuring human dignity, a precondition to functioning as a moral agent. It also defends and promotes an understanding of justice as ensuring both egalitarian and ecological fairness at the global level.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness Arendt, Derrida, and “Care for the World”
By Christopher Peys Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4829 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 5183 3 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1519 0 • $34.00 / £26.00
Grounded in the thought of two radical continental thinkers, Hannah Arendt and Jacques Derrida, this book presents a world-centric ‘caring’ conceptualisation of cosmopolitanism and forgiveness. It develops political theory of repairing and cultivating the relationships which constitute our human community.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Social Media Ethics and COVID-19 Well-Being, Truth, Misinformation, and Authenticity
Edited by Pamela A. Zeiser and Berrin A. Beasley
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1186 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 1879 9 • $45.00 / £30.99
This multidisciplinary collection explores the ethics of social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on misinformation, truth, well-being, and authenticity.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Normativity in African Regional Relations
By Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 188 pages • Part of the Values and
Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1589 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7866 5909 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Combining moral philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, and international relations, this book explores the possibility of using normative international relations as a realistic resolution to the problem of domination of, and discrimination against, minorities, specifically or especially migrants on the African continent.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Passionate Animals
Emotions, Animal Ethics, and Moral Pragmatics
By Mara-Daria Cojocaru
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 230 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2856 5 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8572 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
To solve the problems of factory farming and animal experimentation, what we need is not new philosophical knowledge but a systematic exploration of how to put what we know into practice. This book argues for combining pragmatism and vision, reason and emotions, and morality and politics to foster significantly better human-animal relations.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Righting Health Policy Bioethics, Political Philosophy, and the Normative Justification of Health Law and Policy
By D. Robert MacDougall
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 254 pages • Part of the Revolutionary Bioethics series Hardback 978 1 4985 8995 6 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9963 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Righting Health Policy, MacDougall argues that bioethics has not developed the tools best suited for justifying health law and policy. Using Kant’s practical philosophy as an example, he explores the promise of political philosophy for making normatively justified recommendations about health law and policy.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Test-Driving the Future Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Technological Change
Edited by Diane Michelfelder
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
September 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Philosophy, Technology and Society series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1323 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7866 3240 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
This contributed volume examines ethical ramifications of the development and use of autonomous vehicles. From ethical emergencies akin to the classic trolley problem to more overarching effects on social and economic structures, this volume’s discussion appeal to philosophers, social scientists, engineers, urban planners, and policy makers.
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The Environmental Crisis and Art Thoughtlessness, Responsibility, and Imagination
By Eva Maria Räpple
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 150 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 2846 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8443 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2845 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
The global challenge of climate change presents a daunting task that requires human thinking and ingenuity. In this context, stories, narratives, and images can provide incentives for the imagination, essential in grappling with the complex perplexities of abstract dimensions while also anchoring thinking in human spatial and temporal existence.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Meaning of Mourning Perspectives on Death,
Loss, and Grief
Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0892 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 8930 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Meaning of Mourning brings perspectives from leading philosophers, psychologists, theologians, writers, and artists exploring different dimensions of death, loss, and grief. They together form a wide-ranging study of some of the most difficult and formative experiences in human life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Hate
Edited by Noell Birondo
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 326 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6085 5 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 5381 0862 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Provides the first systematic introduction to the moral psychology of hate compiling specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Regret
Edited by Anna Gotlib
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 304 pages • Part of the Moral
Psychology of the Emotions series
Paperback 978 1 7866 0252 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 2510 0 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0253 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
The Moral Psychology of Regret assembles scholars from several disciplines, including philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, law and neuroscience, to present regret not merely as a feeling or affect but as an emotion of great moral significance that underwrites how we understand ourselves and each other.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Ethics of Anger
Edited by Court D. Lewis and Gregory L. Bock
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 284 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1519 0 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5176 6 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1518 3 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book provides a variety of diverse perspectives related to the ethics of anger, some more analytical in nature, others focused on practical issues, some in defense of anger, and others arguing against its necessity. This book is an essential resource for scholars who want to reflect critically on the place of anger in contemporary life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Guilt
Edited by Bradford Cokelet and Corey J. Maley Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 340 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6547 8 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9656 6 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0966 3 • $37.00 / £28.00
Philosophers and psychologists come together to think systematically about the nature and value of guilt, looking at the biological origins and psychological nature of guilt, and then discussing the culturally enriched conceptions of this vital moral emotion.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Moral Psychology of Hope
Edited by Claudia Blöser and Titus Stahl
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6548 5 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9724 4 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0973 1 • $37.00 / £28.00
The contributions in this volume, written by leading scholars in the philosophy of hope, gives a systematic overview over the philosophical history of hope, about contemporary debates and about the role of hope in our collective life.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
The Reparable and the Irreparable Being Human in the Age of Vulnerability
By Johann Michel
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 264 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0686 8 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6875 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
What do repair and reparation tell us about human beings? They speak to our (natural) vulnerability, our (moral) fallibility, and our (social) incompleteness, but also about the many capabilities we draw upon to mitigate these shortcomings. It is from the heart of human finitude that repair and reparation draw meaning.
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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics
Edited by Ezio Di Nucci; Ji-Young Lee and Isaac A. Wagner
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 420 pages • Part of the Rowman & Littlefield Handbook series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6236 1 • $140.00 / £108.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2378 8 • $133.00 / £102.00
A wide-ranging, comprehensive overview of pressing issues in bioethics today, this handbook takes into account current affairs and historical precedents. Interdisciplinary authorship and global examples make the handbook applicable to a variety of scholar, student, and practitioner types.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Wilderness, Morality, and Value
By Joshua Duclos
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 162 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0136 8 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 1375 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
The pursuit of wilderness preservation is at odds with a commitment to animal welfare. Wilderness, Morality, and Value charts a way forward by clarifying the meaning of wilderness, investigating the fundamental value of wilderness itself, and exploring the implications of a religiospiritual valuation of wilderness.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Deleuze’s Literary Theory
The Laboratory of His Philosophy
By Catarina Pombo Nabais - Translated by Ronald Bogue - Preface by Jacques Ranciere
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 442 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4977 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 3681 1 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4369 8 • $42.50 / £33.00
This book offers a provocative and original reading of Deleuze’s entire philosophy, highlighting the question of modality (the actual, the virtual, the possible, the impossible and the incompossible), the problematic relationship between the event and the assemblage, and the unifying theme of the vitalism of nonorganic life.
General
Historical Dictionary of Husserl’s Philosophy, Second Edition
By John J. Drummond
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 342 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Hardback 978 1 5381 3344 6 • $150.00 / £115.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3453 3 • $142.50 / £110.00
Historical Dictionary of Husserl’s Philosophy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on his key concepts and major writings as well as entries on his most important predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.
General
Virality of Evil Philosophy in the Time of a Pandemic
Edited by Divya Dwivedi
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 174 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6470 9 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4723 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
The authors of this insightful and urgent collection both use the metaphor of evil as a virus or contagion and conceptualize the COVID-19 virus as a manifestation of evil to reconsider the purpose of philosophy in and for a pandemic.
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Deleuze at the End of the World Latin American Perspectives
Edited by Dorothea E. Olkowski and Julián Ferreyra
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 214 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4974 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4667 7 • $137.00 / £105.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1467 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
The philosophy of Deleuze is as relevant to contemporary thought as it is obscure and complex. This book guides readers through this maze by exploring the raw material that Deleuze took from thinkers in various fields of knowledge to construct his own concepts.
General
Heidegger in Question The Art of Existing
By Robert Bernasconi
Humanities Press
May 2022 • 290 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 5034 4 • $29.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 0351 1 • $28.50 / £21.99
Explores in the context of Heidegger’s thought and unpacks a number of questions and challenges. General
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds
By Ben Almassi Lexington Books
May 2022 • 186 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9208 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2062 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9207 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds examines how we can repair human and biotic relationships damaged by environmental injustice, climate change, animal exploitation, and ecological destruction by arguing for the merits of a reparative approach to environmental justice and critically assessing challenges that come with it.
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Bringing Good Even Out of Evil Thomism and the Problem of Evil
By B. Kyle Keltz
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 218 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3892 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 8939 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Newer formulations of the problem of evil include James Sterba’s argument from the Pauline Principle, J. L. Schellenberg’s divine hiddenness argument, Stephen Law’s evil-god challenge, and Nick Trakakis’s antitheodicy. In this book, B. Kyle Keltz defends classical theism against these formulations using Thomas Aquinas’s philosophical theology.
Good & Evil
The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence
By Gino LaPaglia
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Philosophy and Cultural Identity series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8833 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8317 7 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8832 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
In The Cultural Roots of Strategic Intelligence, Gino LaPaglia argues that Strategic Intelligence is a core dynamic of human rationality and that it has always been foundational for creating meaning in society. For thousands of years the identity of the heroic strategist has provided hope for human life lived in extremis.
Hermeneutics
Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy, Third Edition
By Frank Schalow Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 574 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Paperback 978 1 5381 6948 3 • $50.00 / £38.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4352 2 • $138.00 / £106.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2436 9 • $131.00 / £101.00
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Heidegger’s Philosophy, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 crossreferenced entries that provides a clear and comprehensive exposition of the key developments in his life and his thought.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Gadamer’s Truth and Method A Polyphonic Commentary
Edited by Cynthia R. Nielsen and Greg Lynch
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 306 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6794 6 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7953 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This volume features essays from fourteen scholars—both established and rising stars—each of which cover a portion of Truth and Method following the order of the text itself. The result is a robust, historically and thematically rich polyphonic reading of the text as a whole, valuable both for scholarship and teaching.
Hermeneutics
Fraught Decisions in Plato and Shakespeare
By Dianne Rothleder
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 274 pages • Part of the Philosophical Projections series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4707 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 6272 2 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1628 9 • $34.00 / £26.00
Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside Plato’s Republic, this book shows the intersections between literary, philosophical, and political moments in the texts and demonstrates that philosophical interventions are crucial to decision making and managing uncertainty, error and risk. History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato
By Kevin Crotty
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 272 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2711 5 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 6669 7122 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
Ignorance, Irony and Knowledge in Plato shows that Socratic ignorance—knowing that you don’t know—is central to Plato’s philosophy, especially in his use of dialogue and his theory of knowledge. Plato’s philosophical career can be understood as a progressive deepening of his appreciation of Socratic ignorance and its rich implications.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Paradigm,
Logos, and Myth in Plato’s Sophist and Statesman
By Conor Barry
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 328 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4903 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9041 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the uses of the term “paradigm” with respect to both logos and myth in Plato, with a focus on Sophist and Statesman. In so doing, Conor Barry argues for a unitary as opposed to a developmental conception of Plato’s dialogues.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Plato and Demosthenes Recovering the Old Academy
By William H. F. Altman
Lexington Books
November 2022 • 306 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 2005 5 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0062 2 • $45.00 / £30.99
In this book, William H. F. Altman turns to Demosthenes—universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity—and Plato’s other Athenian students in order to add external and historical evidence for Plato’s original curriculum.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
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Plato on the Unity of the Virtues A Dialectic Reading
By Rod Jenks
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 128 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 9203 1 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 2048 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue is one, he deliberately fails to secure this because he thinks the way in which the virtues are both one and many is finally ineffable.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato’s Phaedrus
By Tiago Lier
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 298 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 6280 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2782 2 • $111.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 4985 6279 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
In a novel interpretation of Plato’s Phaedrus, Tiago Lier argues that Socrates’ defense of rhetoric stems from a tension between the desires that motivate speech and the limited power of speech to realize those desires. This tension culminates in a philosophical ethic that Socrates and Plato cultivate through their respective forms of rhetoric.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard’s Philosophy, Second Edition
Plato’s Socrates on Socrates Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy
By Anne-Marie Schultz
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 162 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9966 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9641 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9965 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Anne-Marie Schultz explores Plato’s presentation of Socrates as a philosopher who tells narratives about himself in the Theaetetus, Symposium, Apology, and Phaedo. She argues that scholars should regard Socrates as a public philosopher, while examining Socratic self-disclosive practices in the works of bell hooks, Kathy Khang, and Ta-Neishi Coates.
History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought
Edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 272 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0085 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0866 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This edited collection enriches scholarship on Arendt by considering her contributions to and reflections on the history of thought. The chapters bring Arendt into new conversations with her contemporaries, as well as examining the themes of Arendt’s writing in light of her engagement with philosophical and literary history.
History & Surveys / General
Movements of Thought
By
Christopher B. Barnett Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 338 pages • Part of the Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements series
Hardback 978 1 5381 2261 7 • $150.00 / £115.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2624 4 • $142.50 / £110.00
Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard’s Philosophy, Second Edition chronicles the life and thoughts of the great Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). What makes this volume essential is its extensive scope: it provides a glossary of concepts, persons, and places related to Kierkegaard’s authorship, from “Absolute” to “Hans Christian Ørsted.” History & Surveys / General
Rethinking Fanon The Continuing Dialogue
By Nigel C. Gibson
Humanities Press
September 2022 • 466 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7249 0 • $29.99 / £22.99
eBook 978 1 5381 2506 6 • $28.50 / £21.99
Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue, first published in 1999, has become a classic, grounding new discussions of Fanon and cultural, postcolonial, Africana and gender studies with earlier African and African American dialogues.
History & Surveys / General
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Diary, 1930–1932 and 1936–1937
By Ludwig Wittgenstein - Edited by James C. Klagge and Alfred Nordmann - Translated by Alfred Nordmann - Introduction by Ray Monk Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 144 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6366 5 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3672 2 • $22.00 / £16.99
eBook 978 1 5381 6368 9 • $20.00 / £14.99
Wittgenstein’s diary from the 1930s contains the raw material for what could have been an incomparable spiritual autobiography. For the first time in an affordable edition, the volume includes updated and expanded editorial notes on Wittgenstein’s many allusions, and an introduction by Ray Monk on the larger arc of Wittgenstein’s life and work.
History & Surveys / General
Towards a Realist Philosophy of History
By Adam Timmins
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 192 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0241 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2426 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Towards a Realist Philosophy of History argues for the radical—at least in contemporary historical theory—view that historians are by and large successful in their goal of providing accurate knowledge and understanding about the historical past.
History
& Surveys / General
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Avicenna on the Necessity of the Actual His Interpretation of Four Aristotelian Arguments
By Celia Kathryn Hatherly
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 200 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0448 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 4499 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
In his magnum opus, The Healing, Avicenna took four Aristotelian arguments and used them to prove a very un-Aristotelian conclusion: that the cosmos is both created and eternal. This book explains how Avicenna used his distinctive understanding of possibility and necessity to do so.
History & Surveys / Medieval
The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture
Edited by Jack Simmons
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 290 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 0801 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7997 7 • $116.00 / £89.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0800 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Philosophers and political theorists tackle the question of cultural transformation in the twenty-first century and the role discourse norms play in producing cancel culture, a counter-sexual revolution, racism and a toxic politics that has left the nation feeling vulnerable and angry.
History & Surveys / Modern
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute Schlegel’s Poetic Mysticism
By Karolin Mirzakhan
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 128 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7893 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8912 2 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7892 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel’s Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel’s ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery’s Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader’s desire to comprehend them fully.
Individual Philosophers
Derrida and Africa
Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought
Edited by Grant Farred - Afterword by Jean-Paul Martinon
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 134 pages • Part of the African
Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8191 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1899 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8190 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Taking up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, this edited collection poses the questions: What is Derrida to Africa? And, its corollary, what is Africa to Derrida?
Individual Philosophers
Rethinking Rights Historical Development and Philosophical Justification
By Eleanor Curran
Lexington Books
April 2022 • 180 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 4787 1 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7888 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book takes a new look at the history of individual rights, focusing on how philosophers have written that history. Eleanor Curran argues that the turn to jurisprudence, after the philosophical rejection of natural rights, has resulted in an impoverished notion of rights as no more than claims and entitlements.
History & Surveys / Modern
The Other Enlightenment Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender
By Matthew Sharpe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6021 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0220 0 • $45.00 / £30.99
This post-colonial and feminist reading of the Enlightenment explores the proto-postmodernist practice of examining one’s conclusions through the eyes of the Other. Self-estrangement to gain critical distance from one’s taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the Enlightenment, and remains vital for critical sociopolitical thinking today.
History & Surveys / Renaissance
Beyond Justice as Fairness Rethinking Rawls from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Paul Nnodim
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 190 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5808 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 8068 8 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 5807 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores the three foundational topics in Rawls’s theories of justice (social justice, multiculturalism, and global justice) while deconstructing ideas of democratic citizenship, public reason, and liberal individualism latent in his treatment of these subjects in order to uncover their cultural and historical underpinnings.
Individual Philosophers
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger Philosophy, Modernity, and Education
By Paulina Sosnowska
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 256 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 8243 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 2414 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8242 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
The book examines the trajectory of joint philosophical-pedagogical concepts within the framework of the dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, put in the context of questions concerning the nature of modernity.
Individual Philosophers
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Kant and Theodicy
A Search for an Answer to the Problem of Evil
By George Huxford
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 172 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9725 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7234 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9724 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Kant was engaged with the subject of theodicy throughout his career and not merely in his 1791 treatise explicitly devoted to the subject. George Huxford traces Kant’s thought on theodicy throughout his career to show not only the continuity of Kant’s consideration but also his philosophical development on the subject.
Individual Philosophers
Reading Ricoeur through Law
Edited by Marc de Leeuw; George H. Taylor and Eileen Brennan
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 314 pages • Part of the Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur series
Hardback 978 1 7936 0091 2 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0929 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This is the first collection of essays examining Paul Ricoeur’s writings on law, bringing together eminent Ricoeur scholars from around the world to demonstrate the importance of Ricoeur’s philosophy for the juridical field while offering new paths to extend and build on his work.
Individual Philosophers
Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell A Cultural Sociology
By Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 256 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1847 4 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8481 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book weaves together apparently disconnected elements of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy and social activism into a coherent narrative about the acclaimed twentieth-century intellectual’s evolving stances concerning science and technology and their role in bringing either a future Golden Age or a secular Doomsday.
Individual Philosophers
The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia
Edited by Robert A. Delfino; William Irwin and Jonathan J. Sanford Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 350 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4960 7 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 5381 9614 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt
By Lawrence S. Stepelevich
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 226 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3690 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6881 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3689 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines how, in a series of critical confrontations, Stirner rejected the efforts of his “Young Hegelian” contemporaries to recast Hegel as a revolutionary. For him, the various apocalyptic declarations of these “pious atheists” were only the expressions of adolescent dreams set upon the annihilation of real individuality.
Individual Philosophers
Rethinking Sage Philosophy
Interdisciplinary
Odera Oruka
Perspectives on and beyond
Edited by Kai Kresse and Oriare Nyarwath
Lexington Books
H.
December 2022 • 326 pages • Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0385 0 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3867 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book discusses Henry Odera Oruka’s sage philosophy, rethinking it in light of recent debates in African philosophy and African Studies. The chapters engage perspectives from anthropology, literature, and postcolonial scholarship, questioning and exploring the relevance of sage philosophy for current challenges, including decolonialization.
Individual Philosophers
The Experiential Ontology of Hannah Arendt
By Kimberly Maslin
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 234 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 1246 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2441 1 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 1245 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
Martin Heidegger’s influence on the thought of Hannah Arendt has been frequently noted, but the precise nature of Arendt’s critique of her mentor is less understood. Kim Maslin argues that Arendt’s work attempted to transform fundamental ontology for responsible use in the public realm.
Individual Philosophers
Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead
By Joseph Petek
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2011 6 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 0123 3 • $45.00 / £30.99
Over the past 50 years, Jorge J.E. Gracia has been a seminal figure in Latin American philosophy, philosophy of race and ethnicity, metaphysics and ontology, medieval philosophy, and the theory of interpretation. This book commemorates Gracia’s legacy with a critical investigation of his deep and wide-ranging impact.
Individual Philosophers
Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead argues that the previously unpublished materials appearing in the recent volumes of the Critical Edition of Whitehead call for a complete reconsideration of Whitehead’s philosophical corpus and stand to turn some of what readers think they know about Alfred North Whitehead on its head.
Individual Philosophers
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Untying the Gordian Knot Process, Reality, and Context
By Timothy E. Eastman Lexington Books
May 2022 • 354 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3918 9 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 9165 5 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3917 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
Untying the Gordian Knot shows how the fundamental notions of process, logic and relations, woven with triads of input-outputcontext, can be combined with quantum distinctions associated with actuality and potentiality, enabling the leveraging of many advances in philosophy and physics to unravel several long-standing philosophical problems.
Individual Philosophers
Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus, A Student’s Edition
Translated with commentary by Duncan Richter
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 164 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 3290 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 2883 3 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3289 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book presents both a new translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (often similar to Ogden’s, but with significant improvements) and a line-by-line guide to relevant secondary literature. Rather than arguing for any particular interpretation, it presents a variety of positions for the reader to consider.
Individual Philosophers
Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist Language and the Dynamic Disaster of American Racism
By Leland Harper and Jennifer Kling Lexington Books
October 2022 • 134 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4042 0 • $90.00 / £69.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0437 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book unearths and outlines the semantic foundations of white fragility and their consequences for racial justice in the United States. It argues that by expanding our racial vocabulary in certain ways, we can make progress toward justice equally enjoyed by all.
Language
Theory of Value Structure From Values to Decisions
By Erich H. Rast Lexington Books
March 2022 • 234 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1694 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6951 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores the theory of value structure, or axiology, in metaethics and defends the thesis that aspects of “better than” comparisons may outrank each other and that value cannot always be summed up neatly.
Language
Whitehead
and Continental Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century Dislocations
Edited by Jeremy D. Fackenthal
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 4985 9512 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5100 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 4985 9511 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book explores how thinking with Alfred North Whitehead and various continental philosophers can advance ideas about sustainability and civilization writ large. Contributors employ Whitehead and one or more continental thinkers around a given topic, whether philosophical or social, to produce the dislocations necessary for generating new ideas.
Individual Philosophers
Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy Dwelling in Speech II
By Lawrence J. Hatab
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 328 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4806 8 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 3981 1 • $144.00 / £111.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1399 8 • $37.00 / £28.00
Hatab presents a new vocabulary for Heidegger’s early phenomenology of being-in-the-world and applies it to the question of language.
Language
Suddenness and the Composition of Poetic Thought
By Paul Magee Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Performance Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5352 9 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3536 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Employing an extensive archive of interview materials with major Anglophone poets, this book uncovers how they think in the moments of composition, providing a lucid account of the links between poetic composition and live performative thinking.
Language
Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures The Same God?
By D. E. Buckner
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8743 3 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7419 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 8742 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book proposes a theory of reference--answering the question of whether Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures refer to the same God-within a semantic framework acceptable to atheists and fideists.
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A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age A Dialogue with Duns Scotus
By Liran Shia Gordon
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 210 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0298 3 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 6669 2990 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Through an analysis of the role of the will as the supreme principle of Scotus’s thought, ultimately manifested in the idea of creation, A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age offers a transcendental investigation of finite and limited beings that are fundamentally understood as information entities.
Metaphysics
Problem-Solving Technologies A User-Friendly Philosophy
By Sadjad Soltanzadeh
Rowman & Littlefield International
January 2022 • 218 pages • Part of the Philosophy,
Technology and Society series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5787 9 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 7886 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Problem Solving Technologies provides a user friendly understanding of technological objects including what they are and how the function in our lives.
Metaphysics
Toward a Directionalist Theory of Space On Going Nowhere
By H. Scott Hestevold
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 242 pages • Part of the Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7998 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9964 4 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7997 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Arguing that the universe is absolutely directioned and that there exist spatial (directional) relations that Leibniz overlooked, H. Scott Hestevold formulates a new relationalist theory of space, exploring its implications for the Special Composition Question, reductivism regarding boundaries and holes, and the nature of spacetime.
Metaphysics
Techno-Scientific Practices An Informational Approach
By Federica Russo
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 336 pages
Hardback 978 1 7866 1232 8 • $130.00 / £100.00
Paperback 978 1 7866 2335 5 • $44.00 /
Techno-Scientific
Methodology
Nietzsche’s Naturalist Deconstruction of Truth A World Fragmented in Late Nineteenth-Century Epistemology
By Peter Bornedal
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 340 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7932 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 9308 8 • $121.00 / £93.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7931 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book presents a new interpretation of Nietzsche’s discussions of truth and knowledge, covering the period from his early essay “On Truth and Lies” to his late notebooks. It views these discussions in the context of the neo-Kantian, Naturalist, Positivist, and Pragmatic schools influential in Nietzsche’s late nineteenth-century Europe.
Metaphysics
The Multiplicity of Interpreted Worlds Inner and Outer Perspectives
By Donald A. Crosby
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0650 9 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 6516 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book argues that the subjective and the objective are crucially dependent on one another and neither is intelligible apart from the other. There is no such thing as a purely external, in-itself world. This book is not intended as a defense of epistemological relativism but as a strong recommendation for modest fallibilism and pluralism.
Metaphysics
Whitehead’s Radically Temporalist Metaphysics Recovering the Seriousness of Time
By George Allan
Lexington
Books
March 2022 • 186 pages • Part of the Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 2005 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 0033 3 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 2004 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book argues that Whitehead’s introduction of God into his process metaphysics renders it incoherent. Replacing roles assigned to God with the powers inherent in finite entities, George Allan recovers a coherent presentation of the truth of time’s primacy, using Whitehead’s major writings.
Metaphysics
Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition
Edited by Douglas Hochstetler - Foreword by Amby Burfoot
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 210 pages • Part of the American Philosophy Series series
Paperback 978 1 4985 4783 3 • $39.99 / £31.00 Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7819 9 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 4782 6 • $38.00 / £29.00
Endurance Sport and the American Philosophical Tradition analyzes the relationship between endurance sports and themes from the American philosophical tradition. The contributors write from a scholarly viewpoint but also informed through their own endurance sport participation.
Mind & Body
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Practices analyzes and helps readers to understand the role of instruments and technologies in the practice of science, and their partnership with human agents in producing knowledge about the
world.
Ethical Veganism, Virtue Ethics, and the Great Soul
By Carlo Alvaro
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 214 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9003 7 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 0013 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9002 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Ethical veganism is the view that raising animals for food is an immoral practice that must be stopped because of the harm it causes to the animals, the environment, and our health. Carlo Alvaro argues the only way to stop that harm is to acquire the virtues that enable us to act justly and benevolently toward animals.
Mind & Body
Mind, Value, and Cosmos On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy
By Andrew M. Davis
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 248 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Whitehead Studies series
Paperback 978 1 7936 3641 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 6393 3 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3640 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
A engaging dialogue with the modern “axionoetic” proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie, arguing for the relational nature of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are affirmed as ultimate only in virtue of their relationality. This relationship Whitehead calls “mutual immanence.”
Mind & Body
The Ontology of Perceptual Experience
By Sebastián Sanhueza Rodríguez
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 160 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 1685 2 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6869 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
How should we think of perceptual experiences qua dynamic phenomena? Against an increasingly popular Heraclitean approach that frames them as irreducibly dynamic, the present book argues that perceptual experiences may be described in terms of non-dynamic categories, such as properties, relations, and states.
Mind & Body
The Double Binds of Neoliberalism
Theory and Culture After 1968
Edited by Guillaume Collett and Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone - By Iain MacKenzie
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the Experiments/ On the Political series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5452 6 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4540 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
An interdisciplinary examination of the legacies of the global 1968 uprisings from the vantage point of the current crisis of neoliberal hegemony.
Movements / Critical Theory
Imagination in Inquiry A Philosophical Model and Its Applications
By A. Pablo Iannone
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 280 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 4972 0 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 7936 9737 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Imagination in Inquiry investigates the nature, kinds, component elements, functions, scope, and uses of the imagination that are at work in inquiry. It develops a homeostatic model and discusses its applications in various branches of philosophy, from the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology to ethics and aesthetics.
Mind & Body
Schizoanalysis and Asia Deleuze, Guattari and Postmedia
By Joff P. N. Bradley - Foreword by Toshiya Ueno
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • 368 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5775 6 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7763 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This is the first book to undertake an applied postmedia and philosophical approach to the work of Felix Guattari (and through him, Gilles Deleuze). It provides a way to understand philosophically issues in contemporary technology, social life and consumer culture in Asia.
Mind & Body
Entropic Philosophy Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation
By Shannon M. Mussett
Rowman & Littlefield International
January 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Philosophical Projections series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1246 5 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 2472 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the development of entropic themes, capturing phenomena ranging from chaos, disorder, homogenization, slackening, disspation, and ultimately death. Movements / Critical Theory
The Ends of Critique Methods, Institutions, Politics
Edited by Kathrin Thiele; Birgit M. Kaiser and Timothy O’Leary
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the New Critical Humanities series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1646 3 • $115.00 / £88.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 0534 4 • $40.00 / £31.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1647 0 • $38.00 / £29.00
Re-examining the stakes of critique in the twenty-first century, this book contends with the complex socio-political realities of a globalized world and the changing role that critique and the academy have to play.
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The Fractured Subject Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud
By Bernadette Schulz Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Founding Critical Theory series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6336 8 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3375 5 • $45.00 / £30.99
An investigation Walter Benjamin’s conception of the subject as fractured, via a reading of Benjamin’s use of Freud; the topics cover gender, dreams, memory, childhood and mental illness.
Movements / Critical Theory
The Future of Humanity
Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age
Edited by Pavlina Radia; Sarah Fiona Winters and Laurie Kruk
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Future
Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4796 2 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9564 4 • $150.00 / £115.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0957 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century.
Movements / Critical Theory
Jacques Derrida’s Cambridge Affair Deconstruction, Philosophy and Institutionality
By Niall Gildea
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 228 pages • Part of the Futures of the Archive series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4812 9 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 2601 1 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1261 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
This is the first study of the Cambridge Affair. Drawing upon archival and unpublished material, little-known texts pertaining to the Affair, and Derrida’s own oeuvre, this original account offers an historical and philosophical reconstruction of this crucial debate.
Movements / Deconstruction
Black Existential Freedom
By Nathalie Etoke
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 168 pages • Part of the Living
Existentialism series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5706 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 3060 0 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 5708 4 • $33.00 / £25.00
Black Existential Freedom looks at the ways in which Black cultural productions reflect a constant struggle for freedom and a refusal to surrender to the destructive forces of dehumanization. This book offers a counter-narrative to current Afro-Pessimist theorizations of Blackness that choose the power of death and nihilism over life.
Movements / Existentialism
The French Revolution in Theory
By Sophie Wahnich - Translated by Owen GlynWilliams
Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Reinventing Critical Theory series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1617 3 • $110.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 7866 6197 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why.
Movements / Critical Theory
Creating a Black Vernacular Philosophy
By Devonya N. Havis
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 132 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 4985 3014 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 4985 0156 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book explores how vernacular practices created within Black American diasporic cultures via narratives, the blues, jazz, work songs, and other expressive forms, can be understood as philosophy in their own right.
Movements / Deconstruction
Porosity between Politics and the Economy
By Egidius Berns - Edited by Frank Chouraqui
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 136 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1516 7 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
The book maps out the dynamic relations between the forces at play in politics and the economy in the West through a philosophical analysis of the relations between the concepts of politics and of the economy. It finds that their porous relations inform what it is for humans to live.
Movements / Deconstruction
How Non-being Haunts Being On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance
By Corey Anton
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
September 2022 • 220 pages • Part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
Paperback 978 1 6839 3286 4 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 6839 2840 0 • $69.00 / £53.00
eBook 978 1 6839 3285 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
How Non-being Haunts Being explores the many different modes of absence and non-being that pervade life, language, thought, and culture. A highly readable book of great interest to a wide audience, it ensures that readers will never think of life, death, or themselves, the same way again.
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Mabogo P. More Philosophical Anthropology in Azania
By Tendayi Sithole Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 250 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6611 6 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6123 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This is the first book-length work to focus on the philosophical and anthropological contribution of Mabogo More, a prominent and influential black South African existentialist thinker.
Movements / Existentialism
Embodied Humanism Toward Solidarity and Sensuous Enjoyment
By Jeff Noonan
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 246 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3694 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 6959 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
Movements / Humanism
Kant and Mysticism Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason’s Light
By Stephen R. Palmquist
Lexington
Books
March 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Contemporary Studies in Idealism series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0466 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 4644 4 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0465 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Kant and Mysticism interprets Kant’s early criticism of Swedenborg’s mysticism as the fountainhead of the Critical philosophy. Kantian Critique revolutionizes not only traditional metaphysics, but also our understanding of mysticism: Critical mysticism is a unitive experience that impels us to lay bare all human pretensions to reason’s light.
Movements / Idealism
A Philosophical Journey into the Anthropocene Discovering Terra Incognita
By Agostino Cera
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 232 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 3081 0 • $100.00 / £77.00
eBook 978 1 7936 0827 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents a philosophical journey into the Anthropocene that views this geological epoch as the potential métarécit of our age and the planetary framework within which technology becomes the environment for human life. The appropriate name for this epochal phenomenon is, as a result, not Anthropocene, but Technocene.
Movements / Phenomenology
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
By Lewis R. Gordon - Introduction by Mabogo Percy More Humanities Press
April 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 5739 2515 0 • $55.99 / £43.00
Movements / Humanism
Happiness in Kant’s Practical Philosophy Morality, Indirect Duties, and Welfare Rights
By Alice Pinheiro Walla
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Studies in Idealism series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3354 5 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3552 2 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book analyses Kant’s assumptions about happiness and the implications they have for his moral, political, and legal thought. It provides a “map” of the different areas in which the concept of happiness appears in his practical philosophy and examines how it relates to the main themes of his practical philosophy.
Movements / Idealism
Schelling on Truth and Person The Meaning of Positive Philosophy
By Nikolaj Zunic
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 310 pages • Part of the
Contemporary Studies in Idealism series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1588 4 • $120.00 / £92.00
eBook 978 1 6669 5891 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book reinterprets Friedrich Schelling’s (1775–1854) positive philosophy as humanity’s striving for truth. It presents truth in the context of the historical phenomena of mythology and religion and the anthropological categories of the soul, spirit, and personality.
Movements / Idealism
Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility in the Early Heidegger
By Hans Pedersen
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 190 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4832 7 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 2557 7 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1256 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book employs Heidegger’s work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger’s thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts.
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Before God Exercises in Subjectivity
By Steven DeLay
Rowman & Littlefield International
June 2022 • 200 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4814 3 • $39.95 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 3165 5 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1317 2 • $38.00 / £29.00
In this original work, Steven DeLay, using a wide breadth of philosophical sources, articulates a view of selfhood which emphasizes humanity’s ineluctable experience before-God
Movements / Phenomenology
Feelings of Believing Psychology, History, Phenomenology
By Ryan Hickerson
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 1 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 7719 9 • $42.99 / £33.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7175 5 • $121.00 / £93.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7718 2 • $40.50 / £31.00
In Feelings of Believing, Ryan Hickerson interprets the doxastic theories of Hume, Descartes, Husserl, and James in light of empirical work on attention and overconfidence. It brings together the history of philosophy, phenomenology, and psychology.
Movements / Phenomenology
Historical Imagination Hermeneutics and Cultural Narrative
By Paul Fairfield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
June 2022 • 176 pages • Part of the Social Imaginaries series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5653 7 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6544 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book is a phenomenological and hermeneutical investigation into the nature of historical imagination. Carefully defining historical imagination, the book probes the relationship between the imaginative and the empirical, as well as the relationship between historical understanding and self-understanding
Movements / Phenomenology
Evil and Givenness The Thanatonic Phenomenon
By Brian W. Becker
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 184 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5116 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1174 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Evil and Givenness describes a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil. The central concept in this work, the thanatonic, identifies that phenomenality proper to evil, arriving by a parasitic mode of givenness and manifesting itself through four figures: trauma, the evil eye, the foreign-body, and the abject.
Movements / Phenomenology
Heidegger and the Holy
Edited by Richard Capobianco
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
February 2022 • 204 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6252 1 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 2538 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
The first book on the notion of the Holy in Heidegger, this collection evokes a poetic sense of awe before the divine present in his philosophical approach.
Movements / Phenomenology
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language
By Dimitris Apostolopoulos
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 326 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4798 6 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 1994 4 • $133.00 / £102.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1200 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
Through accessible analyses of Merleau-Ponty’s views of linguistic expression and understanding, and by tracing the evolution of these views throughout the course of his philosophical career, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Language offers a comprehensive picture of his engagement with the philosophy of language.
Movements / Phenomenology
Ontological
Branding Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World
By Bonard Iván Molina García
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 150 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0235 8 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 2365 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Applying Heideggerian tool ontology to antiblack racism in the United States, Ontological Branding argues that race is a tool to constrain nonwhite persons, especially Black persons, to ways of being in service to the white world. U.S. law’s colorblind “equality” safeguards white supremacy, and racial justice instead requires ontological equality.
Movements / Phenomenology
Ontologies of Sex Philosophy in Sexual Politics
By Zeynep Direk
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 246 pages • Part of the Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4819 8 • $39.95 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6631 1 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0664 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book examines feminist philosophical analyses of sexual oppression of women by men, and brings them into conversation with phenomenological, ontological and psychoanalytical accounts of erotic experience and sexual difference.
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The Crowdsourced Panopticon Conformity and Control on Social Media
By Jeremy Weissman
Rowman & Littlefield International
October 2022 • 158 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7409 8 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 4312 2 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4433 6 • $34.00 / £26.00
Informed by critiques of conformity and mass media by some of the greatest philosophers of the past two centuries, as well as by a wide range of historical and empirical studies, Weissman helps shed light on what may happen when our lives are increasingly broadcast online for everyone all the time, to be judged by the global community.
Movements / Phenomenology
The Sonic Gaze Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening
By T Storm Heter
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 206 pages • Part of the Living
Existentialism series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6261 3 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 2620 0 • $34.00 / £26.00 eBook 978 1 5381 6263 7 • $32.00 / £25.00
This book argues that whiteness is not only a visual orientation; it is a way of hearing. Inspired by the understandings of race and whiteness in the existential writings of Fanon, Beauvoir, Sartre, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis, this book introduces students to the notion of the white sonic gaze.
Movements / Phenomenology
Transcending Reason Heidegger on Rationality
Edited by Matthew Burch and Irene McMullin Rowman & Littlefield International September 2022 • 316 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series Paperback 978 1 5381 4820 4 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 9588 8 • $142.00 / £109.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0959 5 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book offers the first edited volume to thematically foreground Heidegger’s complex relation to “the life of reason” and its relation to normativity. Authored by world-class phenomenologists and Heidegger scholars, it presents cutting-edge, convention-challenging scholarship on Heidegger’s relationship to the phenomenological traditions.
Movements / Phenomenology
We as Self Ouri, Intersubjectivity, and Presubjectivity
By Hye Young Kim
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 232 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 5467 1 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 4657 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 4985 5466 4 • $38.00 / £29.00
In our modern time of division, who belongs to the we is an important and underexamined area of philosophical investigation. This book offers another way of understanding we-ness by adopting diverse linguocultural traditions in a philosophical investigation of selfhood.
Movements / Phenomenology
The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn
By Anna Jani
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 266 pages • Part of the Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4900 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9010 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
Anna Jani interprets the relationship between phenomenology and ontology by redefining its goals, methodological focuses, and key figures. The common methodology of hermeneutical phenomenology originates from the question on being, which resembles religious experiences in certain ways.
Movements / Phenomenology
Towards a Polemical Ethics Between Heidegger and Plato
By Gregory Fried
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 320 pages • Part of the New Heidegger Research series
Paperback 978 1 5381 7406 7 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 0003 3 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1002 7 • $37.00 / £28.00
This book presents an original and creative enactment of a confrontation between Heidegger and Plato. Gregory Fried outlines a new approach to ethics and politics combining skeptical idealism and what he calls polemical ethics, and goes on to apply polemical ethics to the crucial questions around fascism and racism.
Movements / Phenomenology
Transforming the Theological Turn Phenomenology with Emmanuel Falque
Edited by Martin Koci and Jason Alvis Rowman & Littlefield International September 2022 • 214 pages • Part of the Reframing Continental Philosophy of Religion series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4834 1 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6227 7 • $137.00 / £105.00
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In this collection, the question “Must we cross the Rubicon?” is central. However, rather than simply opposing or subscribing to Falque’s position, the individual chapters of this book interrogate and critically reflect on the relationship between theology and philosophy, offering novel perspectives and redrawing the outlines of their borderlands.
Movements / Phenomenology
The Place of the Mosque Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power
By Akel Isma’il Kahera
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 244 pages • Part of the Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space series
Hardback 978 1 7936 4687 3 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 7936 6880 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
The Place of the Mosque probes a host of discursive formations—spaces of public assembly and social interaction, quotidian practices, disputed sites, and biopolitics—while critiquing their peculiar anomalies. It goes beyond architectural criticism to emphasize the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of place and space.
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Peirce’s Pragmaticism A Radical Perspective
By E. San Juan Jr.
Lexington Books
July 2022 • 240 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 1309 5 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3101 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
E. San Juan Jr. examines Peirce’s discourses on semiotics, ethics, and aesthetics and suggests their analogies with the radical critiques of Marx and other progressive trends.
Movements / Pragmatism
Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the AnalyticSynthetic Distinction
By Robert Sinclair
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 156 pages • Part of the American Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 7936 1820 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 8214 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an in-depth examination of C.I. Lewis’s conceptual pragmatism and its influence on Quine’s developing views in epistemology. The author shows how Quine’s engagement with problems presented by Lewis, such as analyticity and the empirical given, contribute to the development of his conception of naturalized epistemology.
Movements / Pragmatism
William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism, A Critical Edition
Edited by H. G. Callaway
Lexington Books
June 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the American Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5314 7 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 3154 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
This new critical edition is an examination of William James’s Essays in Radical Empiricism in light of the scientific naturalism prominent in James’s Principles of Psychology (1890) and the subsequent development of Darwinian, functional psychology and functionalism in psychology, the philosophy psychology and the philosophy of mind.
Movements / Pragmatism
Materialist Philosophy of History
A Realist Antidote to Postmodernism
By Branko Mitrović
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 282 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2002 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback
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This book examines the wide-ranging implications for historical research of the view that everything is physical and that no immaterial entities, forces, or phenomena exist. It presents the consequences of materialism for our understanding of the historical past, including the rejection of postmodernist perspectives on history.
Movements / Realism
Pragmatism, Technology, and the Persistence of the Postmodern
By Andrew Wells Garnar
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 194 pages
Paperback 978 1 4985 9761 6 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 7593 3 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 4985 9760 9 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book reconstructs the postmodern in light of an analysis of technology through classical pragmatism. It provides a pragmatic interpretation of information and communication technologies, exploring how social interactions occur through these technologies, and ways to democratically address the challenges of postmodernity.
Movements / Pragmatism
Rationalist Pragmatism A Framework for Moral Objectivism
By Mitchell Silver
Lexington Books
May 2022 • 230 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives series
Paperback 978 1 7936 0541 2 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 5399 9 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7936 0540 5 • $38.00 / £29.00
Ratonalist Pragmatism argues that our interest in truth—our rational nature as practical and theoretical beings—forms us as a community of mutually recognizing truth seekers and creates the possibility of objective moral knowledge.
Movements / Pragmatism
The Philosophy of Practical Affairs An Introduction
By Joseph Agassi
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 170 pages • Part of the Philosophical Practice series
Hardback 978 1 7936 5173 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 1747 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book addresses the problems of everyday life faced by twentyfirst-century individuals and explores practical questions central to philosophy of life: What is a good life? What makes a life good or satisfactory? What is the proper aim of life?
Movements / Rationalism
Sport Realism
A Law-Inspired Theory of Sport
By Aaron Harper
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 182 pages • Part of the Studies in Philosophy of Sport series
Hardback 978 1 6669 2008 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 0093 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Aaron Harper defends a new theory of sport—sport realism—focusing on sport operations and the decisions made by sports officials like umpires and referees. Sport realism offers an explanation of sport as it is played, along with normative assessment of ethical issues in sport like cheating and rules disputes.
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Thoreau’s Pedagogy of Awakening
By Clodomir Barros de Andrade Hamilton Books
February 2022 • 146 pages
Paperback 978 0 7618 7272 6 • $30.99 / £23.99
eBook 978 0 7618 2733 3 • $29.00 / £21.99
This book is a poetic and philosophic meditation on Thoreau’s work, highlighting his “pedagogy of awakening”, that is, a path towards a nondual and enlightening experience with nature.
Movements / Transcendentalism
The Mediation Theory of Technology Toward a Social Science Philosophy of Technology
By Frederic J. Fleron Jr. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6201 9 • $90.00 / £69.00
eBook 978 1 5381 2026 6 • $ / £
This book explores a new wave in the philosophy of technology from the perspective of the Mediation Theory of Technology (MTT) and the Social Science Philosophy of Technology (SSPT). These ground-breaking approaches transcend the weaknesses of what Carl Mitcham has labelled the Engineering Philosophy of Technology and the Humanities Philosophy of Technology. Philosophy of Technology
Africa beyond Liberal Democracy
In Search of Context-Relevant Models of Democracy for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Reginald M.J. Oduor Lexington Books
June 2022 • 298 pages • Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1381 1 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3828 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
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 indigenous African political thought can be utilised to design models of democracy suitable for twenty-first-century African countries.
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Against Values
How to Talk About the Good in a Postliberal Era
By Philip J. Harold
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
November 2022 • pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6980 3 • $115.00 / £88.00
eBook 978 1 5381 9810 0 • $45.00 / £35.00
As a systematic introduction to the philosophical foundations of postliberalism, this timely book reveals how the idea of personal values have served to divide and segregate people rather than uniting them under a shared common good. Also discussed are the contemporary interplay of sovereignty and morality and religion and politics.
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Post-Automobility Futures Technology, Power, and Imaginaries
By Robert Braun and Richard Randell Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 226 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 5885 2 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 8869 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book presents an in-depth phenomenological and deconstructive analysis of the automobility imaginary, which is none other than the mundane automobility reality within which we dwell in everyday life. Philosophy of Technology
A New Politics for Philosophy Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche,
and Strauss
Edited by George A. Dunn and Mango Telli
Lexington Books
October 2022 • 358 pages
Hardback 978 1 4985 7732 8 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 4985 7335 5 • $45.00 / £35.00
Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars offer meticulous interpretations of key philosophical works by Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss.
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Afrocubanas
History, Thought, and Cultural Practices
Edited by Devyn Spence Benson; Daisy Rubiera Castillo and Inés María Martiatu Terry - Translated by Karina Alma Rowman & Littlefield International May 2022 • 398 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4822 8 • $39.95 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4810 0 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1482 7 • $38.00 / £29.00
There is no other published work in English devoted to analyzing the political and intellectual dimensions of black Cuban women’s thought across the island’s history. This text is essential reading for students of Afro-Latin American studies, Caribbean history, or courses focussing on black women in the Atlantic region.
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Anti-Colonial Solidarity Race, Reconciliation, and MENA Liberation
By George N. Fourlas
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
January 2022 • 200 pages • Part of the Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4145 8 • $90.00 / £69.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 1465 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4147 2 • $33.50 / £26.00
Entangled in misrecognition, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived people are socially and politically vulnerable throughout the colonized world. Anti-Colonial relational existence is possible through careful social labor, and cases of MENA communities prove that such normative praxis is not merely wishful thinking.
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Black Men from behind the Veil Ontological Interrogations
Edited by George Yancy Lexington Books
January 2022 • 234 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0647 9 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 6669 6486 6 • $45.00 / £35.00
Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering.
Political
Boris Hessen and Philosophy
The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics
By Sean Winkler
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Hardback 978 1 5381 4758 0 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 7597 7 • $45.00 / £30.99
Sean Winkler provides a comprehensive reading of the work of pioneering figure to the history and philosophy of science, Boris Hessen. This analysis of Hessen’s oeuvre engages with texts previously unstudied in the English and includes translations crucial to understanding Hessen’s importance to modern physics.
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Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg
Edited by Jane Anna Gordon and Drucilla Cornell Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 512 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series Paperback 978 1 5381 5552 3 • $50.00 / £38.00 Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4421 1 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1443 8 • $47.50 / £37.00
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg brings together a global community of writers to revisit key aspects of Luxemburg’s thought, from the accumulation of capital, to the mass strike, to her debate with Vladimir Lenin on the meaning of socialism, and her searing critiques of colonialism as inherent to capitalist accumulation.
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Democracy in Spite of the Demos
From Arendt to the Frankfurt School
By Larry Alan Busk
Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 194 pages • Part of the Reinventing
Critical Theory series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4817 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
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eBook 978 1 7866 1526 8 • $34.00 / £26.00
The book calls into the question the critical value of the concept of “democracy” at a time characterized by the rise of Right-wing populist movements and the persistence of pathological political beliefs (such as climate skepticism).
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Blackening Britain Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization
By
James G. Cantres
Rowman & Littlefield International
September 2022 • 270 pages • Part of the Global Critical Caribbean Thought series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4840 2 • $36.00 / £28.00 Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 3544 4 • $126.00 / £97.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4355 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
Blackening Britain explores the key moments, figures, and patterns of radical black political development among Caribbean and African migrants in Britain after World War II. Ultimately, the move away from British identity and a radical, revolutionary consciousness rooted in the West Indian background was forged in the contentious space of Britain.
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Creolizing Practices of Freedom Recognition and Dissonance
By Michael J. Monahan
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Creolizing the Canon series
Hardback 978 1 5381 7461 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4623 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Articulating a creolizing theory of freedom and liberation, this book emphasizes a dynamic account of existence by appealing to a sonic metaphor of resonance and dissonance. It draws together a diverse set of figures and traditions including G.W.F. Hegel, Steve Biko, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sylvia Wynter, and Lewis Gordon.
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Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala Caribbean, Meso, and South American Contributions and Challenges
Edited by Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso; María Lugones and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 256 pages • Part of the Global Critical Caribbean Thought series Hardback 978 1 5381 5311 6 • $125.00 / £96.00 eBook 978 1 5381 3123 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an introduction to the key arguments in decolonial feminism, particularly, the coloniality of gender, the critique of white and Eurocentric feminisms, the imbrication between gender, race, and colonialism, feminicides, and the coloniality of democracy and public institutions.
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Dialogue and the New Cosmopolitanism
Conversations with Edward Demenchonok
Edited by Fred Dallmayr
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 494 pages • Part of the Philosophy and Cultural Identity series
Hardback 978 1 6669 1945 5 • $135.00 / £104.00 eBook 978 1 6669 9462 2 • $50.00 / £38.00
This book stands in opposition to the doctrine that might makes right and that the goal of politics is to establish domination rather than justice and the good life for all. Its chapters present conversations with Edward Demenchonok from a number of perspectives: philosophical, anthropological, cultural, and ethical.
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Foucault and Governmentality Living to Work in the Age of Control
By Benda Hofmeyr Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
July 2022 • 192 pages • Part of the Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1172 7 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1734 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Drawing upon political philosophy and political economy, Benda Hofmeyr presents a Foucaultian analysis and historical contextualisation of the rise of neo-liberal governmentality. Historical, sociological and cultural studies help excavate the geneaology of the capitalist subject within the neo-liberal governmental context of the last four decades.
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Marx after the Kyoto School Utopia and the Pure Land
By Bradley Kaye
Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 264 pages • Part of the CEACOP
East Asian Comparative Ethics, Politics and Philosophy of Law series
Hardback 978 1 5381 5407 6 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4083 3 • $45.00 / £35.00
Showing key connections between Marx’s oeuvre and Buddhist thought, this book demonstrates connections between Marx and Nishida Kitaro, who many consider the key Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School of Philosophy, the first modern philosophers in Japan.
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Political Loneliness Modern Liberal Subjects in
By Jennifer Gaffney
Hiding
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 224 pages • Part of the Philosophical
Projections series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4831 0 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 6945 5 • $126.00 / £97.00
eBook 978 1 7866 0695 2 • $34.00 / £26.00
This book deepens and challenges discourses in current continental philosophy relating to the experience of alienation and the conditions for communal life.
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Progressive Anonymity From Identity Politics to
Evidence-Based Government
By Naomi Zack
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
August 2022 • 212 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 7410 4 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 5381 6034 4 • $116.00 / £89.00
eBook 978 1 5381 3604 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
Continuing her visionary work in social-political philosophy, Zack critiques identity politics as perpetuating damaging essentialist perspectives and policies. The antidote to identity group egoism is anonymity based on relevant shared interests and a meritocracy led by experts chosen without preference for group affiliation or political charisma.
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Frantz Fanon The Politics and Poetics of the Postcolonial Subject
By Alejandro J. De Oto - Translated by Karina Alma Rowman & Littlefield International
February 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Global
Critical Caribbean Thought series
Hardback 978 1 7866 1348 6 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 7866 3509 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
Focusing on the contributions of Frantz Fanon’s writing to the construction of a theory of the postcolonial subject, this book engages post-structuralist discussions on subjectivity and explores the most important readings and discussions of Fanon’s work.
Political
Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of Humanity
By David A. Eisenberg
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 364 pages
Paperback 978 1 7936 2789 6
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7936 7872 2 • $120.00 / £92.00 eBook 978 1 7936 2788 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
This book provides an extended examination of Nietzsche and Tocqueville’s political thought, with an eye to shedding light on history’s democratic drift. It looks not only to a future that filled both thinkers with dread, but also to an aristocratic past that has been all but drowned beneath democracy’s shallow waters.
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Primal Philosophy Rousseau with Laplanche
By Lucas Fain
Rowman & Littlefield International
August 2022 • 216 pages
Paperback 978 1 5381 4839 6 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 5381 6187 7 • $105.00 / £81.00
eBook 978 1 5381 4619 4 • $34.00 / £26.00
After the epoch of the “end of metaphysics” and the attendant disasters of twentieth-century political violence, this book initiates a renewed inquiry into the responsibility of the philosopher and its rootedness in the possibility of philosophy itself.
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Sartre, Imagination and Dialectical Reason Creating Society as a Work of Art
By Austin Hayden Smidt Rowman & Littlefield International
March 2022 • 302 pages • Part of the Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political series
Paperback 978 1 5381 5307 9 • $39.00 / £30.00
Previously published in hardback
978 1 7866 1673 3 • $133.00 / £102.00
eBook 978 1 7866 1168 0 • $37.00 / £28.00
There are perpetual debates about the extent of freedom in politics. Are we free to choose? Are we overdetermined by our material conditions? Some hybrid between the two? In this text, Austin Hayden Smidt analyzes an oft-overlooked text by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to ground a logical framework for exploring this problem.
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The Conformist Rebellion
Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left
Edited by Elena Louisa Lange and Joshua PickettDepaolis
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
March 2022 • 326 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 6015 2 • $130.00 / £100.00 eBook 978 1 5381 0169 9 • $50.00 / £38.00
The contrast between the Marxian emancipatory project and what the progressive left has made of it has never been more glaring than now, a time in which capital no longer seems to confront a political barrier. It is this predicament that The Conformist Rebellion evaluates, for a renewed approach to emancipation from capital.
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The Future of the State Philosophy and Politics
Edited by Artemy Magun
Rowman & Littlefield International
May 2022 • 296 pages • Part of the Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies series
Paperback 978 1 5381 4980 5 • $36.00 / £28.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 7866 4834 4 • $147.00 / £113.00 eBook 978 1 7866 1484 1 • $34.00 / £26.00
The state has been a dominant political form for at least the last two hundred years. This is a multi-authored volume exploring the transformation of state as it experiences historical and conceptual crisis and envisioning how it could be re-constituted.
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The Politicization of Trans Identity An Analysis of Backlash, Scapegoating, and DogWhistling from Obergefell to Bostock
By Loren Cannon Lexington Books
February 2022 • 236 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 2381 2 • $100.00 / £77.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3829 9 • $45.00 / £35.00
The politicization of trans identity—also affecting gender non-binary and gender non-conforming persons—is a form of backlash to the Obergefell ruling (legalizing same sex marriage) and increased LGBTQ equality. This book provides a conceptual analysis and application of the notions of backlash, scapegoating, dog whistling, and virtue signaling.
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Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Revolutions Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought
By Drucilla Cornell Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 144 pages • Part of the Global
Critical Caribbean Thought series
Hardback 978 1 5381 6848 6 • $95.00 / £73.00
Paperback 978 1 5381 8493 3 • $35.00 / £27.00
eBook 978 1 5381 6850 9 • $29.00 / £21.99
Influential political theorist Drucilla Cornell challenges readers to rethink the class struggle and the battle against racialized capitalism, and to reconceptualize the ideas of revolution, liberation and rebellion themselves, by focusing on the great revolutionary theorist CLR James. Political
The Democracy Manifesto A Dialogue on Why Elections Need to be Replaced with Sortition
By Wayne Waxman and Alison McCulloch
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 198 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5398 7 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 3994 4 • $45.00 / £35.00
Elections are not the solution to political crisis, they’re the problem. In lively dialogue form, The Democracy Manifesto explains why elections are anti-democratic and should be replaced with government in which decision-makers are randomly selected from the population at large.
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The Militant Intellect Critical Theory’s Conceptual Personae
By Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 270 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4509 8 • $115.00 / £88.00 eBook 978 1 5381 5111 1 • $45.00 / £35.00
Re-envisioning the relationship between critical theory and politics, this book argues that critical theory cultivates the militancy of the general intellect by training that intellect to work toward the intersectional and structural death of the colonist and thus to envision the materialization of the feministdecolonial-communist-queer-marronage world that constitutes its horizon.
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The Politics of Desire Foucault, Deleuze, and Psychoanalysis
Edited by Agustín Colombo; Edward McGushin and Geoff Pfeifer
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
April 2022 • 204 pages
Hardback 978 1 5381 4424 4 • $110.00 / £85.00 eBook 978 1 5381 4251 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
This book gathers contributions from international scholars with the aim of exploring the political reflection of Deleuze-Guattari’s and Foucault’s critical encounter with psychoanalytic thought: their possible connections, their divergences and the fields of reflection that this encounter opens, the problems and debates that lead Foucault and Deleuze to engage with psychoanalysis.
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White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility Transforming Collective Harm beyond the Punishment Paradigm
By Eva Boodman
Lexington Books
January 2022 • 168 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
Hardback 978 1 7936 3901 1 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 7936 9028 8 • $45.00 / £35.00
White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility addresses the problem of white denial. Rejecting punitive moralities that reproduce white innocence and encourage absolution, Eva Boodman makes the case for a transformative whiteness that dismantles the moral, racial, political, and affective constructs that keep racial capitalism in place.
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Xenophon’s Socratic Rhetoric Virtue, Eros, and Philosophy in the Symposium
By Dustin A. Gish
Lexington Books
December 2022 • 424 pages
Hardback 978 1 6669 0316 4 • $155.00 / £119.00 eBook 978 1 6669 3171 1 • $60.00 / £46.00
In one of the most charming works to survive from classical antiquity, Xenophon’s Symposium depicts an amiable evening of wine, entertainment, and conversation shared by Socrates, and a few of his associates, with certain Athenian gentlemen who are gathered to honor a young man for his recent victory in the Panathenaic games.
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Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion Melioristic Case Studies
By Ulf Zackariasson
Lexington Books
February 2022 • 198 pages • Part of the American
Philosophy Series series
Hardback 978 1 6669 0301 0 • $95.00 / £73.00
eBook 978 1 6669 3027 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Taking the pragmatic insistence on the primacy of practice seriously, this book argues for the fruitfulness of a pragmatic philosophy of religion by bringing it to bear on a number of classical topics within the philosophy of religion: miracles, religious diversity, and what it is to be religiously mistaken.
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African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities Re-reading the Canon
Edited by Aretha Phiri
Lexington Books
March 2022 • 180 pages • Part of the African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue series
Paperback 978 1 4985 7126 5 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 1241 1 • $111.00 / £85.00
eBook 978 1 4985 7125 8 • $38.00 / £29.00
This volume probes the interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy within the context of epistemological decolonization and the (South) African scholarly transformation project. The contributors map out how philosophy and literature can be viewed as mutually enriching disciplines within and for Africa.
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Climate Engineering A Normative Perspective
By Daniel Edward Callies
Should we research, develop, and deploy climate engineering technology? Drawing upon contemporary moral and political theory, this book offers a normative perspective on such questions, ultimately making the case in favor of research and regulation guided by norms of legitimacy, distributive justice, and procedural justice.
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Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity A Philosophical Appraisal
By John H. McClendon III
Lexington Books
September 2022 • 260 pages • Part of the
Philosophy of Race series
Paperback 978 1 4985 8537 8 • $39.99 / £31.00
Previously published in hardback 978 1 4985 5354 4 • $105.00 / £81.00 eBook 978 1 4985 8536 1 • $38.00 / £29.00
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity constitutes a philosophical inquiry on Black Theology and its attendant Black Christology. This text critically expounds on the methodologies and arguments, which guide how Black Theology specifically affirms Black Christology as the definitive paradigm for authentic Christianity.
Religious
A Critique of Liberal Cynicism
Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism
By Will Barnes
Lexington Books
August 2022 • 164 pages
Hardback 978 1 7936 5566 0 • $95.00 / £73.00 eBook 978 1 7936 5677 7 • $45.00 / £35.00
Focusing on the philosophical work of Judith Butler and Peter Sloterdijk, A Critique of Liberal Cynicism diagnoses—and proposes an immanent critique of—a form of cynicism dominant in popular and academic culture.
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American Imaginaries Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas
By Jeremy C.A. Smith
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
October 2022 • 236 pages • Part of the Social Imaginaries series
Hardback 978 1 7866 0967 0 • $105.00 / £81.00
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This book studies the diverse societies, cities, nations, economies, and regions of the Americas as they emerged in the Western hemisphere in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing on the paradigms of social imaginaries and civilizational analysis, it explores regions of Central America, the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.
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Christiaens argues that digital technologies are fundamentally undermining workers’ autonomy by enacting systems of surveillance that lead to exploitation, alienation, and exhaustion. For a more sustainable future of work, digital technologies should support human development instead of subordinating it to algorithmic control.
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May 2022 • 208 pages • Part of the Philosophy of Race series
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The author defends the philosophical value of underground hip-hop through illustrating how the culture significantly contributes to debates in multiple academic fields. She also examines the exclusion of hiphop from discourses on knowledge, racism, genocide and trauma as a reflection of the neoliberal sensibility that hip-hop exposes and opposes.
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The Philosophy of Sex
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Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport, Second Edition
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Edited by Marjan Ivković; Adriana Zaharijević and Gazela Pudar Draško
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