University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
The Unstoppable Irish
Songs and Integration of the New York Irish, 1783–1883
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Unstoppable Irish follows the changing fortunes of New York's Irish Catholics, commencing with the evacuation of British military forces in late 1783 and concluding one hundred years later with the completion of the initial term of the city's first Catholic mayor. During that century, Hibernians...
The Case of Galileo
A Closed Question?
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The “Galileo Affair” has been the locus of various and opposing appraisals for centuries: some view it as an historical event emblematic of the obscurantism of the Catholic Church, opposed a priori to the progress of science; others consider it a tragic reciprocal misunderstanding between Galileo,...
A French Slave in Nazi Germany
A Testimony
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
The Required Work Service Law, or Service du Travail Obligatoire, was passed in 1943 by the Vichy government of France under German occupation. Passage of the law confirmed the French government’s willing collaboration in providing the Nazi regime with French manpower to replace German workers...
Way Toward Wisdom, The
An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2006
Once thought to be the task of metaphysics, the synthesis of knowledge has been discounted by many philosophers today. Benedict Ashley, a leading Thomistic scholar, argues that it remains a valid and intellectually fruitful pursuit by situating metaphysics as an endeavor that must cross disciplinary...
Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn
Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Philosophers will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just...
by Gregory Mellema
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, Mellema analyzes each kind...
Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts?
A Comparative Study in Metaphysics and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Kenneth Dorter’s Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? is a study of fundamental issues in metaphysics and ethics across major philosophical traditions of the world, including the way in which metaphysics can be a foundation for ethics, as well as the importance of metaphysics on its own...
The Limits of Liberalism
Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate both liberal cosmopolitanism and identity politics. The incoherencies are revealed through an investigation...
Beyond High Courts
The Justice Complex in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America is a much-needed volume that will make a significant contribution to the growing fields of comparative law and politics and Latin American legal institutions. The book moves these research agendas beyond the study of high courts by offering...
Levinas
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1990
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the twentieth century. In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the center of Levinas's thought-alterity, the...
by Scott Cowdell
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
In his latest book on the ground-breaking work of René Girard (1923–2015), Scott Cowdell sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory and theology: he develops the proposed connection between Girardian thought and theological dramatic theory in new directions, engaging with issues of evolutionary...
Apocalypse Deferred
Girard and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The thought of René Girard on violence, sacrifice, and mimetic theory has exerted a strong influence on Japanese scholars as well as around the world. In this collection of essays, originating from a Tokyo conference on violence and religion, scholars call on Girardian ideas to address apocalyptic...
Political Philosophy and the Republican Future
Reconsidering Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Are we moving inevitably into an irreversible era of postnationalism and globalism? In Political Philosophy and the Republican Future, Gregory Bruce Smith asks, if participation in self-government is not central to citizens’ vision of the political good, is despotism inevitable? Smith's study evolves...
God’s Patients
Chaucer, Agency, and the Nature of Laws
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
God’s Patients approaches some of Chaucer’s most challenging poems with two philosophical questions in mind: How does action relate to passion, to being-acted-on? And what does it mean to submit one’s will to a law? Responding to critics (Jill Mann, Mark Miller) who have pointed out the subtlety...