Fordham University Press: 585 books
Transcendence and the Concrete
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Jean Wahl (1888–1974), once considered by the likes of Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, and Gabriel Marcel to be among the greatest French philosophers, has today nearly been forgotten outside France. Yet his influence on French philosophical thought can hardly be overestimated....
Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration
Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Can Orthodox Christianity offer spiritual resources uniquely suited to the environmental concerns of today? This book makes the case emphatically that it can indeed. In addition to being the first substantial and comprehensive collection of essays, in any language, to address environmental issues...
Being-in-Creation
Human Responsibility in an Endangered World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
What is the proper relationship between human beings and the more-than-human world? This philosophical question, which underlies vast environmental crises, forces us to investigate the tension between our extraordinary powers, which seem to set us apart from nature, even above it, and our thoroughgoing...
Motherhood as Metaphor
Engendering Interreligious Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Who is my neighbor? As our world has increasingly become a single place, this question posed in the gospel story is heard as an interreligious inquiry. Yet studies of encounter across religious lines have largely been framed as the meeting of male leaders. What difference does it make when women’s...
Comparing Faithfully
Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Every generation of theologians must respond to its context by rearticulating the central tenets of the faith. Interreligious comparison has been integral to this process from the start of the Christian tradition and is especially salient today. The emerging field of comparative theology, in which...
A Plausible God
Secular Reflections on Liberal Jewish Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
At least since the seventeenth century, the traditional God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam has been under pressure to conform to the scientific worldview. Across the monotheistic traditions there has emerged a “liberal” conception of God compatible with a thoroughgoing naturalism. For many,...
Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy
Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
“[Lemm] consolidates her reputation as one of Nietzsche’s most original, attentive, and lively readers.” —The Journal of Nietzsche Studies
This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and provides the first systematic treatment of...
Chronicle of Separation
On Deconstruction’s Disillusioned Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, Ben-Naftali...
Lyric Apocalypse
Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
What’s new about the apocalypse? Revelation does not allow us to look back after the end and enumerate pivotal turning points. It happens in an immediate encounter with the transformatively new.
John Milton’s and Andrew Marvell’s lyrics attempt to render the experience of such an apocalyptic...
Democracy, Culture, Catholicism
Voices from Four Continents
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Compiling scholarly essays from a unique three-year Democracy, Culture and Catholicism International Research Project, Democracy, Culture, Catholicism richly articulates the diverse and dynamic interplay of democracy, culture, and Catholicism in the contemporary world. The twenty-five essays from...
Indecorous Thinking
Figures of Speech in Early Modern Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Indecorous Thinking is a study of artifice at its most conspicuous: it argues that early modern writers turned to figures of speech like simile, antithesis, and periphrasis as the instruments of a particular kind of thinking unique to the emergent field of vernacular poesie. The classical ideal of...
by Remo Bodei
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols...
Deconstructing the Death Penalty
Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The questions at stake run from the politics of death penalty abolition to broader questions of the nature of sovereignty and democracy, the human and the animal, mass incarceration, gender, and religion.
The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments
Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A Derrida scholar traces the evolution of the philosopher’s final seminar in Paris as he contemplates the state of the world and his own mortality.
For decades, philosopher Jacques Derrida held weekly seminars in Paris, spending years at a time on a single, complex theme. From 2001 to 2003,...