University Of Notre Dame Press imprint: 347 books
by Mark Brazaitis
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
In his latest collection of literary fiction, Mark Brazaitis evokes with sympathy, insight, and humor the lives of characters in a small Ohio town. The ten short stories of The Incurables limn the mental landscape of people facing conditions they believe are insolvable, from the oppressive horrors...
by Michael P. Federici
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This collection of thirteen original essays by Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803–1876), a major political and philosophical figure in the American Catholic intellectual tradition, presents his developed political theory in which he devotes central attention to connecting Catholicism to American politics....
Colin Powell
Imperfect Patriot
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
For the past three decades, Colin Powell has been among America’s most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell’s decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the...
by Roger D. Masters
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 1996
In recent years, Niccolò Machiavelli's works have been viewed primarily with historical interest as analysis of the tactics used by immoral political officials. Roger D. Masters, a leading expert in the relationship between modern natural sciences and politics, argues boldly in this book that Machiavelli...
Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and the Demise of Naturalism
Reunifying Political Theory and Social Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Today the ethical and normative concerns of everyday citizens are all too often sidelined from the study of political and social issues, driven out by an effort to create a more “scientific” study. This book offers a way for social scientists and political theorists to reintegrate the empirical...
Portrait of Beatrice
Dante, D. G. Rossetti, and the Imaginary Lady
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
The Portrait of Beatrice examines both Dante's and D. G. Rossetti's intellectual experiences in the light of a common concern about visuality. Both render, in different times and contexts, something that resists clear representation, be it the divine beauty of the angel-women or the depiction of the...
The Uses of Darkness
Women's Underworld Journeys, Ancient and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2000
Laurie Brands Gagné believes the image of God as stern Father or Judge has done much damage over the centuries and has engendered a sense of shame and guilt, especially in women. She sees our own civilization as one that is cut off from the natural world and from the precious part of ourselves that...
The Infinity of God
New Perspectives in Theology and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Two questions regarding contemporary theological and philosophical studies are often overlooked: “Is God infinite or finite?” and, “What does it mean to say that God is infinite?” In The Infinity of God, Benedikt Paul Göcke and Christian Tapp bring together prominent scholars to discuss God’s...
Rationality in Science, Religion, and Everyday Life
A Critical Evaluation of Four Models of Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Mikael Stenmark examines four models of rationality and argues for a discussion of rationality that takes into account the function and aim of such human practices as science and religion.
What I Found Out About Her
Stories of Dreaming Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today.
In this collection of eleven stories, LaSalle...
Strange Words
Retelling and Reception in the Medieval Roland Textual Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Strange Words offers separate but interrelated close readings of four medieval Roland texts in French and Occitan, paying particular attention to scenes in which the speeches of various characters perform or mirror narrative functions. In this clearly written and accessible book, Margaret Jewett Burland...