Fordham University Press: 585 books
How We Got to Coney Island
The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, street cars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York’s largest borough---and the remarkable system that...
Interpreting Nature
The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Modern environmentalism has come to realize that many of its key concerns—“wilderness” and “nature” among them—are contested territory, viewed differently by different people. Understanding nature requires science and ecology, to be sure, but it also requires a sensitivity to history, culture, and narrative. Thus, understanding nature is a fundamentally hermeneutic task.
The Postcolonial Contemporary
Political Imaginaries for the Global Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Contributors come from a number of disciplines: literature, anthropology, geography, sociology, and history.
Technologies of Life and Death
From Cloning to Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The central aim of this book is to approach contemporary problems raised by technologies of life and death as ethical issues that call for a more nuanced approach than mainstream philosophy can provide. To do so, it draws on the recently published seminars of Jacques Derrida to analyze the extremes...
Tastes of the Divine
Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavor, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualizes emotional states as something to be savored. At their core, emotions...
Realizing the Witch
Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and persecution, Häxan creatively blends spectacle...
The Imperative to Write
Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer’s vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this residue of sublimity take in the fictions that follow from it—and that leave it in ruins?
This...
The Bread of the Strong
Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Contributing to the ongoing excavation of the spiritual lifeworld of Dorothy Day—“the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism”—The Bread of the Strong offers compelling new insight into the history of the Catholic Worker movement, including...
Out of the Ordinary
A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Previously unpublished memoir of first transgender man to undergo phalloplasty.
New Men
Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty. Yet the path these soldiers followed on the road to reintegration was far more...
by Dalia Judovitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a veritable celebration of light and the visible world, but this is deceptive. The familiarity of visual experience blinds the beholder to a deeper understanding...
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of...
by Michael Naas
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in 2004, Derrida From Now On attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and to demonstrate the continuing significance of his work for contemporary philosophy and literary theory.
If Derrida's thought is to remain relevant for us today,...
Saint Marks
Words, Images, and What Persists
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
A wide-ranging book ranging from biblical texts to painting and writing from the Renaissance to modernity.