Fordham University Press: 585 books
by Thomas J. Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university. It places the development of Fordham within the context of the massive expansion of Catholic higher education...
Mocking Bird Technologies
The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Contributors: Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended...
Fordham
A History and Memoir, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Fordham University is the quintessential American-Catholic institution—and one now looked upon as among the best Catholic universities in the country. Its story is also the story of New York, especially the Bronx, and
Fordham’s commitment to the city during its rise, fall, and rebirth. It’s...
The John F. Sonnett Memorial Lectures at Fordham University School of Law
A Half-Century of Advocacy and Judicial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book represents the distinguished Sonnett lecture series sponsored by Fordham’s Law School that has taken place for the last 45 years. In this collection, U.S. Supreme Court Justices, a Lord Chancellor of England, three Chief Justices of Ireland, a Chief Justice of South Africa, a President...
History and Hope
The International Humanitarian Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
History and Hope: The International Humanitarian Reader provides a better understanding—both within and outside academia—of the multifaceted demands posed by humanitarian assistance programs. The Reader is a compilation of the most important chapters in the twelve-volume International Humanitarian...
Believing Scholars
Ten Catholic Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith?
For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the general...
King Alfonso VIII of Castile
Government, Family, and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Continues Fordham's work to bring scholarship on medieval Iberia to an anglophone audience
by Michael Caires, Frank Cirillo, D.H. Dilbeck
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Eight prominent and rising scholars come together to grapple with the seismic shifts in the study of the North's decision to wage Civil War in the wake of Gary Gallagher's The Union War (Harvard University Press 2012)
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics
The Heidelberg Conference
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger’s thought. This event took place in the very amphitheater in which, more...
Paul Hanly Furfey
Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Nicholas Rademacher’s book is meticulously researched and clearly written, shedding new light on Monsignor Paul Hanly Furfey’s life by drawing on Furfey’s copious published material and substantial archival deposit. Paul Hanly Furfey (1896–1992) is one of U.S. Catholicism’s greatest champions...
The Last Professors
The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A powerful wake-up call about the threats to the heart of college and university life-the professoriate.
Academics in Action!
A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The academy is often described as an ivory tower, isolated from the community surrounding it. Presenting the theory, vision, and implementation of a socially engaged program for the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) in Peabody’s College of Education and Human Development at...
by Stefan Neubert, Kersten Reich
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education, knowledge and truth, and experience and culture.
This book, the result of cooperation...
by Karl Jaspers
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. “Are the German people guilty?” These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention...