Fordham University Press: 585 books
The Seeds of Things
Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from itself and yet always also made of...
The Self-Emptying Subject
Kenosis and Immanence, Medieval to Modern
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The result is an elaboration of a theory of ethics different from the two dominant modern conceptions: Foucault's ethics of the self and Levinas's ethics of the other.
Gazing Through a Prism Darkly
Reflections on Merold Westphal's Hermeneutical Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Merold Westphal has been in the foremost ranks of philosophers who proclaim a new postsecular philosophy. By articulating an epistemology sensitive to the realities of cognitive finitude and moral weakness, he defends a wisdom that begins in both humility and commitment, one that always confesses...
Fugitive Testimony
On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fugitive Testimony traces the long arc of the African American slave narrative from the eighteenth century to the present in order to rethink the epistemological limits of the form and to theorize the complicated interplay between the visual and the literary throughout its history. Gathering an archive...
A Century of Subways
Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The transit historian and author of Under the Sidewalks of New York delivers a lively and authoritative history of New York City’s fabled subway.
On the afternoon of October 27, 1904, ordinary New Yorkers descended beneath the sidewalks for the first time to ride the electric-powered trains...
Becoming Christian
Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious...
Pre-Occupied Spaces
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Runner Up Winner of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize - Established Scholars, Cultural Studies Category
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th & 21st Centuries)
Honorable Mention for the Howard R. Marraro Prize
By linking Italy’s long history of emigration to all...
Dancing Jacobins
A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America’s republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation’s life unfolds. This book apprehends that trope not just as the phantasmatic...
Where Are You?
An Ontology of the Cell Phone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. “Where are you?”—a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day—is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought...
Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts
Art, Migrations, Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The extraordinary Watts Towers were created over the course of three decades by a determined, single-minded artist, Sabato Rodia, a highly remarkable Italian immigrant laborer who wanted to do “something big.” Now a National Historic Landmark and internationally renowned destination, the Watts...
The God Who Deconstructs Himself
Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror,' the issue of the extent and the nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking...
by Michael Naas
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This book also serves to Introduce a soon-to-be-published seminar by Jacques Derrida, titled "Life-Death," that offers a new side to Derrida's thought.
Racial Worldmaking
The Power of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust...
The Noetics of Nature
Environmental Philosophy and the Holy Beauty of the Visible
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Contemplative or “noetic” knowledge has traditionally been seen as the highest mode of understanding, a view that persists both in many non-Western cultures and in Eastern Christianity, where “theoria physike,” or the illumined understanding of creation that follows the purification of the...