Fordham University Press: 585 books
Narratives of Catastrophe
Boris Diop, ben Jelloun, Khatibi
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Narratives of Catastrophe tells the story of the relationship between catastrophe, in the senses of "down turn" and "break," and narration as "recounting" in the senses suggested by the French term récit in selected texts by three leading writers from Africa.
Qader's...
Drawing the Line
Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks, and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a philosophy of the limit, and with reference...
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond
Poetic Variety in Medieval Iceland and Norway
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Eddic, Skaldic, and Beyond shines light on traditional divisions of Old Norse–Icelandic poetry and awakens the reader to work that blurs these boundaries. Many of the texts and topics taken up in these enlightening essays have been difficult to categorize and have consequently been overlooked or...
To Make the Hands Impure
Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read?
For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein “ethics” becomes a matter...
Jewish Studies as Counterlife
A Report to the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A sustained, systematic and programmatic critique of what it means for a field or discipline of academic inquiry to come into existence and of the place of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in the modern unviersity.
Reading Sideways
The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality at the tum of the century.
by Panteleymon Anastasakis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Axis forces (Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria) occupied Greece from 1941 to 1944. The unimaginable hardships caused by foreign occupation were compounded by the flight of the government days before enemy forces reached Athens. This national crisis forced the Church of Greece, an institution accustomed...
Vox Populi
The O'Shaughnessy Files
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Vox Populi is the long-awaited fourth collection of interviews, editorials, essays, observations and keen insight from legendary New York broadcaster William O’Shaughnessy. With this inspiring new anthology, Bill is back in a big way, offering compelling dialogue and opinion on timely issues and...
Killing Times
The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Draws on the author’s previous work on the human as “prosthesis” to examine a specific machinery of the State used not to prolong but to end life.
Dissonance
Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power...
Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored
Reading Plato’s Phaedrus and Writing the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: “Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?” Through her examination of Plato’s Phaedrus and her insights about the place of forgetting in a life, Rapp answers Roethke’s query with a resounding Yes. In so doing,...
The Blind Man
A Phantasmography
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show the...
The Cruelest of All Mothers
Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, “God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
It is commonly supposed that certain elements of medieval philosophy are uncharacteristically preserved in modern philosophical thought through the idea that mental phenomena are distinguished from physical phenomena by their intentionality, their intrinsic directedness toward some object. The many...