Fordham University Press: 585 books
Material Spirit
Religion and Literature Intranscendent
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The essays in this collection examine philosophical, religious, and literary or artistic texts using methodologies and insights that have grown out of reflection on literature and art. In them, them phrase “material spirit” becomes a point of departure for considering the continuing spectral effects...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern.
Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional...
Toward a Theology of Eros
Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and transfigure doctrinal tropes? Avoiding the well-worn path of sexual moralizing while also departing decisively...
Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials
Cosmopolitical Philosofictions
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
“Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials.” This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks of science fiction). What is revealed in the aliens of which Kant speaks—and he no doubt took them more seriously than anyone else in the history...
All Ears
The Aesthetics of Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The world of international politics has recently been rocked by a seemingly endless series of scandals involving auditory surveillance: the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping is merely the most sensational example of what appears to be a universal practice today. What is the source of this generalized...
Apocalypse-Cinema
2012 and Other Ends of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner,...
Making Italian America
Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land—and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these questions...
Summers with Lincoln
Looking for the Man in the Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A journey across America revealing “the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today” (The Washington Times).
Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory...
The Reinvention of Religious Music
Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground. His reinvention of religious...
Affliction
Health, Disease, Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.
First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances...
Bruno Latour in Pieces
An Intellectual Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had “never been modern.” In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies...
by J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book—the culmination of forty years of friendship between J. Hillis Miller and Jacques Derrida, during which Miller also closely followed all Derrida’s writings and seminars—is “for Derrida” in two senses. It is “for him,” dedicated to his memory. The chapters also speak, in acts...
Negative Ecstasies
Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the...
The Queer Turn in Feminism
Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of...