Fordham University Press: 585 books
by John Buridan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The rediscovery of Aristotle in the late twelfth century led to a fresh development of logical theory, culminating in Buridan’s crucial comprehensive treatment in the Treatise on Consequences. Buridan’s novel treatment of the categorical syllogism laid the basis for the study of logic in succeeding...
Breaking Resemblance
The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In recent decades curators and artists have shown a distinct interest in religion, its different traditions, manifestations in public life, gestures and images. Breaking Resemblance explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion by focusing on the ways artists re-work religious...
Forgetting Lot's Wife
On Destructive Spectatorship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history...
Thresholds of Listening
Sound, Technics, Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Thresholds of Listening addresses recent and historical changes in the ways listening has been conceived. Listening, having been emancipated from the passive, subjected position of reception, has come to be asserted as an active force in culture and in collective and individual politics.
The...
Think, Pig!
Beckett at the Limit of the Human
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book examines Samuel Beckett’s unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism’s postwar crisis—the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes.
Rabaté, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, explores...
Musically Sublime
Indeterminacy, Infinity, Irresolvability
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting the notion that there is a single format for sublime feeling, Wurth shows how, from the mid eighteenth...
The Diary of Prisoner 17326
A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
A moving memoir of childhood in Dutch colonial Java, coming of age in wartime, and the trauma of life in WWII Labor Camps run by the Japanese.
As a boy growing up the Dutch island colony of Java, John K. Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger...
Home, Uprooted
Oral Histories of India's Partition
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price: partition, the division of the country into India and Pakistan, and the communal riots that followed. These riots resulted...
Bound by Conflict
Dilemmas of the Two Sudans
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Since its independence on January 1, 1956, Sudan has been at war with itself. Through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005, the North–South dimension of the conflict was seemingly resolved by the independence of the South on July 9, 2011. However, as a result of issues that were not resolved...
The Architecture of Concepts
The Historical Formation of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century.
The...
The Varieties of Transcendence
Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Varieties of Transcendence traces American pragmatist thought on religion and its relevance for theorizing religion today. The volume establishes pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as powerful alternatives to the more common secularization discourse. In stressing the importance...
The Mandate of Dignity
Ronald Dworkin, Revolutionary Constitutionalism, and the Claims of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world’s most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin’s discomfort with that document’s...
The Watchdog Still Barks
How Accountability Reporting Evolved for the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Upends the traditional media narrative that watchdog (accountability) journalism is in a long, dismaying decline
Communications Research in Action
Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
A synergy between academia and activism has long been a goal of both scholars and advocacy organizations in communications research. The essays in Communications Research in Action demonstrate, for the first time in one volume, how an effective partnership between the two can contribute to a more...