Fordham University Press imprint: 480 books

Zonas Peligrosas

The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America

by Tom Hare
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018

Zonas Peligrosas: The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America examines indicators of orderliness and security in El Salvador, shows how policies and programs based on disorganization theory have been used, and why they might not make Salvadoran urban dwellers safer. In Latin America,...

The Singular Voice of Being

John Duns Scotus and Ultimate Difference

by Andrew T. LaZella, Gyula Klima
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

The Singular Voice of Being reconsiders John Duns Scotus’s well-studied theory of the univocity of being in light of his less explored discussions of ultimate difference. Ultimate difference is a notion introduced by Aristotle and known by the Aristotelian tradition, but one that, this book argues,...

Finance Fictions

Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

by Arne De Boever
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted...

Reading with John Clare

Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism

by Sara Guyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary politics...
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