Fordham University Press: 585 books
Power of Gentleness
Meditations on the Risk of Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Dufourmantelle, a major French philosopher and as a psychoanalyst, recently died while trying to rescue children at the beach, and her death has received an extraordinary outpouring of grief in both the Anglophone and Francophone media.
A Scholar's Tale
Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
For more than fifty years, Geoffrey Hartman has been a pivotal figure in the humanities. In his first book, in 1954, he helped establish the study of Romanticism as key to the problems of modernity. Later, his writings were crucial to the explosive developments in literary theory in the late seventies,...
Two
The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.
The reason for this, says...
What Fanon Said
A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought”...
by Ulrich Baer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The enduring power of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry rests with his claim that all we need for a better life on earth is already given to us, in the here and now. In twenty-six engaging and accessible essays, Ulrich Baer’s The Rilke Alphabet examines this promise by one of the greatest poets in any...
by Michal Peled Ginsburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde,...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? Can philosophy even address listening, écouter, as opposed to entendre, which...
Ambiguity and the Absolute
Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the Question of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Chouraqui argues, are linked by how they conceive the question of truth. Although both thinkers criticize the traditional concept of truth as objectivity, they both find that rejecting it does not solve the problem. What is it in our natural existence...
Reading the Allegorical Intertext
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging...
Commons Democracy
Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democracy—a...
The Origin of the Political
Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
In this book Roberto Esposito explores the conceptual trajectories of two of the twentieth century’s most vital thinkers of the political: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil. Taking Homer’s Iliad—that “great prism through which every gesture has the possibility of becoming public, precisely by...
The Insistence of Art
Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses...
The Unpolitical
On the Radical Critique of Political Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Massimo Cacciari is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought...
Empowering the People of God
Catholic Action before and after Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The early 1960s were a heady time for Catholic laypeople. Pope Pius XII’s assurance “You do not belong to the Church. You are the Church” emboldened the laity to challenge Church authority in ways previously considered unthinkable. Empowering the People of God offers a fresh look at the Catholic...