The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. —Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” These famous lines…
It’s Not All About Psychology
We were in Phoenix, waiting for the connecting flight to Philadelphia, when we noticed a young couple and their little girl on the seats across the aisle…
Proposals for Book Series: Politics, Literature, and Film
Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series is actively seeking proposals for academic works that fit the description below: This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics…
What Can Political Science Learn from Literature?
Since the behavioral revolution in the 1960s, political science has increasingly defined itself as the empirical, quantifiable study of politics.[2] Modeled after the natural sciences, behavioralism is…
Science Fiction and Political Philosophy: From Bacon to Black Mirror
Science Fiction and Political Philosophy: From Bacon to Black Mirror. Timothy McCranor and Steven Michels, eds.. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2020. Science Fiction and Political Philosophy…
Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film
Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film. Brian Danoff, Lexington Books, 2020. Brian Danoff continues the effort of illuminating our understanding of…
Why Moralize Upon It?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declared that, “the greatest duty of a statesman is to educate.”[1] The central claim of this book is that it is not only…
Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film
Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film. Brian Danoff (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020). “Why moralize upon it?” asked Herman Melville’s character Amasa Delano…
Politics, Literature, and Film Series: Looking for Proposals!
Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series is actively seeking proposals for academic works that fit the description below: This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics…
Looking for Book Proposals!
Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series is actively seeking proposals for academic works that fit the description below: This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics…
Invitation of Book Proposals to Politics, Literature, and Film Series
Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series is actively seeking proposals for academic works that fit the description below: This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics…
Comparative Cultural Studies and the New Weltliteratur
Comparative Cultural Studies and the New Weltliteratur. Elke Sturm-Trigonakis. Translated from the German by Athanasia Margoni and Maria Kaisar. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press. 2013. Elke…
Preface from the Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature
This book grows out of scholarship by numerous authors that has raised awareness of the existential, socio-psychological, and socio-political problems produced by modern understandings of the human…
Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature
Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature. Anthony M. Wachs and Jon D. Schaff. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. The worst…
The Politics and Literature of Global Rights and Freedom Book Proposals
The Anthem Series on the Politics and Literature of Global Rights and Freedom examines the intersection of politics and works of literature, film and television. Focused on…