Fordham University Press: 585 books
Google Me
One-Click Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
“Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy.” In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google...
Nostalgia
When Are We Ever at Home?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Winner, French Voices Grand Prize
Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many...
On the Nature of Marx's Things
Translation as Necrophilology
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it.
Sophistical Practice
Toward a Consistent Relativism
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato wants us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. A sophistic history of philosophy questions the orthodox philosophical history of philosophy: that of ontology...
Sometimes Always True
Undogmatic Pluralism in Politics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Sometimes Always True aims to resolve three connected problems. First, we need an undogmatic pluralist standpoint in political theory, metaphysics, and epistemology. But genuine pluralism suffers from the contradiction that making room for fundamental differences in outlook means making room for outlooks...
by Don Ihde
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Husserl’s Missing Technologies looks at the early-twentieth-century “classical” phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, both in the light of the philosophy of science of his time, and retrospectively at his philosophy from a contemporary “postphenomenology.” Of central interest are his infrequent...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
How have we thought “the body”? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the “mystical body of Christ”—all these (and others) are incorporated in the word Corpus, the title and topic of Jean-Luc Nancy’s masterwork.
Corpus...
Environmental Aesthetics
Crossing Divides and Breaking Ground
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Environmental aesthetics crosses several commonly recognized divides: between analytic and continental philosophy, Eastern and Western traditions, universalizing and historicizing approaches, and theoretical and practical concerns. This volume sets out to show how these,perspectives can be brought...
by Teodolinda Barolini
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural,...
Queer as Camp
Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Unique study to bring studies of summer camp together with critical work on "camp" as queer style or practice.
Sexual Disorientations
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory,...
Beyond the Supersquare
Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Beyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism, which developed from a symposium presented by the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2011, showcases original essays by distinguished Latin American architects, historians, and curators whose research examines architecture and...
by Jacques Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida’s ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled “The Autobiographical Animal,” the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two...
by Neil Levi
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Why were modernist works of art, literature, and music that were neither by nor about Jews nevertheless interpreted as Jewish? In this book, Neil Levi explores how the antisemitic fantasy of a mobile, dangerous, contagious Jewish spirit unfolds in the antimodernist polemics of Richard Wagner, Max...