Fordham University Press: 585 books
Traditions of Eloquence
The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the present. Much of the history of how Jesuit traditions contributed to the development of rhetorical theory...
Overcoming Onto-Theology
Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America’s leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal...
The Human Eros
Eco-ontology and the Aesthetics of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy, primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions. Alexander’s primary claim is that human beings have an inherent need to experience meaning and value, a “Human...
In Dante's Wake
Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted...
Europe and Empire
On the Political Forms of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe...
What's Queer about Europe?
Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
What’s Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally,...
A Reformation Debate
John Calvin & Jacopo Sadoleto
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In 1539, Cardinal Jacopo Sadoleto, Bishop of Carpentras, addressed a letter to the magistrates and citizens of Geneva, asking them to return to the Roman Catholic faith. John Calvin replied to Sadoleto, defending the adoption of the Protestant reforms. Sadoleto’s letter and Calvin’s reply constitute...
Aesthetics of Negativity
Blanchot, Adorno, and Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Maurice Blanchot and Theodor W. Adorno are among the most difficult but also the most profound thinkers in twentieth-century aesthetics. While their methods and perspectives differ widely, they share a concern with the negativity of the artwork conceived in terms of either its experience and possibility...
by Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build...
Sovereignty and Its Other
Toward the Dejustification of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is...
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum
An Untimely Meditation on the American Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Redeemer Nation in the Interregnum interrogates the polyvalent role that American exceptionalism continues to play after 9/11. Whereas American exceptionalism is often construed as a discredited Cold War–era belief structure, Spanos persuasively demonstrates how it operationalizes an apparatus of...
by Charles Shepherdson
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of Lacan’s purported “ahistoricism,” and how does the temporality of the subject in Lacan intersect...
Church and Society
The Laurence J. McGinley Lectures, 1988-2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
One of the leading theologians of our time, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., has written and lectured on a wide range of topics across his distinguished career, and for a wide range of audiences. Integrating faith and scholarship, he has created a rich body of work that, in the words of one observer,...
Civil Rights in New York City
From World War II to the Giuliani Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the importance of the Northern history of the movement. The contributors make clear that civil rights in...