Fordham University Press: 585 books
by Marjorie Garber
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In Loaded Words the inimitable literary and cultural critic Marjorie Garber invites readers to join her in a rigorous and exuberant exploration of language. What links the pieces included in this vibrant new collection is the author’s contention that all words are inescapably loaded—that is, highly...
Trance Mediums and New Media
Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Ongoing debates about the “return of religion” have paid little attention to the orgiastic and enthusiastic qualities of religiosity, despite a significant increase in the use of techniques of trance and possession around the globe. Likewise, research on religion and media has neglected the fact...
Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis
The Law, the Theory, and the Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The goal of this book is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept—informed consent—that has transformed the delivery of health care in the United States.
Examining the concept of informed consent in the context of psychoanalysis, the book first summarizes the law and literature on this...
After Fukushima
The Equivalence of Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a “natural” catastrophe when all of our technologies—nuclear energy, power supply, water supply—are...
Memory and Complicity
Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Since World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma but rather to connect its memory with other memories of violence, namely that of colonialism. These works produced what Debarati Sanyal calls...
Identity
Fragments, Frankness
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open...
Eco-Deconstruction
Derrida and Environmental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The contributors are an impressive group of philosophers and literary and cultural theorists.
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints...
Administering Interpretation
Derrida, Agamben, and the Political Theology of Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Features original pieces by an international group of major scholars, including such prominent figures as Stanley Fish and Bernhard Schlink (author of the bestselling novel The Reader, in addition to being a prominent legal scholar).
by Meyer Berger
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Meyer ("Mike") Berger was one of the greatest journalists of this century. A reporter and columnist for The New York Times for thirty years, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his account of the murder of thirteen people by a deranged war veteran in Camden, New Jersey.
Berger is...
Delirious Naples
A Cultural History of the City of the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Stages an encounter, at once critical and celebratory, with historical and contemporary Naples, a city that presents itself as an irresolvable paradox for its ability to remain intellectually and culturally animated (“delirious”), even in the face of its recurring economic and political crises.
Personal Effects
Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Celebrating one of the most important Italian American female authors of our time, Personal Effects offers a lucid view of Louise DeSalvo as a writer who has produced a vast and provocative body of memoir writing, a scholar who has enriched our understanding of Virginia Woolf, and a teacher who has...
The Logos of the Living World
Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Today we urgently need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other animals. This book puts Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy into dialogue with literature, evolutionary biology, and animal studies. In a radical departure from most critical animal studies, it argues for evolutionary...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as “spectacle”...