Fordham University Press: 585 books
Excommunicated from the Union
How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Anti-Catholicism has had a long presence in American history. The Civil War in 1861 gave Catholic Americans a chance to prove their patriotism once and for all. Exploring how Catholics sought to use their participation in the war to counteract religious and political nativism in the United States,...
Death and Other Penalties
Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical...
A Touch More Rare
Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Harry Berger, Jr., has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early...
by Samuel Weber
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related...
The Sons of Molly Maguire
The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America’s first labor wars in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy).
A secret society of Irish peasant assassins, the Molly Maguires reemerged in Pennsylvania’s...
Who Can Afford to Improvise?
James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James...
Flirtations
Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction?
In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and...
by Abdelwahab Meddeb
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation, located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating “moderate” Islam, which he characterizes as...
A Weak Messianic Power
Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: “We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” This claim addresses us not just from the past but from what will have belonged to it only as a missed possibility and unrealized potential. For...
Of Elephants and Toothaches
Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue'
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle’s deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieślowski...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
From Plato’s Symposium to Hegel’s truth as a “Bacchanalian revel,” from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation, which puts both “contemporary” and “romanticism” in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions...
Artifacts of Thinking
Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt’s “Denktagebuch” offers a path through Hannah Arendt’s recently published Denktagebuch, or “Book of Thoughts.” In this book a number of innovative Arendt scholars come together to ask how we should think about these remarkable writings in the context...
by Willi Goetschel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be.
The idea of Jewish...