Fordham University Press: 585 books
The Possibility of a World
Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In this series of interviews, Jean-Luc Nancy reviews his life’s work. But like Schlegel’s historian—“a prophet facing backwards”—Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through the history of art, philosophy, religion, and politics in search of new possibilities that remain to be thought.
This...
Adoration
The Deconstruction of Christianity II
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This second volume in Nancy’s The Deconstruction of Christianity explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us now, in the wake of the dis-enclosure of religion and the retreat of God: that of adoration.
Adoration is stretched out toward things, but without phenomenological...
Ego Sum
Corpus, Anima, Fabula
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
First published in 1979 but never available in English until now, Ego Sum challenges, through a careful and unprecedented reading of Descartes’s writings, the picture of Descartes as the father of modern philosophy: the thinker who founded the edifice of knowledge on the absolute self-certainty...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher’s public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of another: Heidegger and anti-Semitism.
What...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Coming is a lyrical, erudite examination of the French notion of jouissance. How did jouissance evolve from referring to the pleasure of possessing a material thing (property, wealth) to the pleasure of orgasm, from appropriation to dis-appropriation, from consumption to consummation? The philosophers...
Expectation
Philosophy, Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy’s writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English.
More substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature’s relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul.
In an extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric intensity, The Fall of Sleep puts an end...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on “the inoperative community”—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal...
Persistent Forms
Explorations in Historical Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Since the mid-1980s, attempts to think history and literature together have produced much exciting work in the humanities. Indeed, some form of historicism can be said to inform most of the current scholarship in literary studies, including work in poetics, yet much of this scholarship remains undertheorized.
Envisioning...
Italoamericana
The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration to its settlement in America requires that one come to know how these immigrants saw their communities as colonies of the mother country. Edited with extraordinary skill, Italoamericana: The Literature...
A Time for the Humanities
Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human,...
Maps for a Fiesta
A Latina/o Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
What can theology offer in the context of neoliberalism, globalization, growing inequality, and an ever more ecologically precarious planet that disproportionately affects the poor? This book, by one of the country’s best-known Latino theologians, explores possibilities for liberation from the forces...
Modernity's Mist
British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Modernity’s Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpredictable...
Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude
A Comparative Theology for the Democracy of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
We live in an increasingly global, interconnected, and interdependent world, in which various forms of systemic imbalance in power have given birth to a growing demand for genuine pluralism and democracy. As befits a world so interconnected, this book presents a comparative theological and philosophical...