Fordham University Press: 585 books
Deep Time, Dark Times
On Being Geologically Human
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Based on the 2015 Thinking Out Loud Lectures in Philosophy and Society at Western Sydney University.
The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The Essential Early Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
This volume assembles essential essays—some published only posthumously, others obscure, another only recently translated—by W. E. B. Du Bois from 1894 to early 1906. They show the first formulations of some of his most famous ideas, namely, “the veil,” “double-consciousness,” and the...
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic...
Manhattan
Letters from Prehistory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Manhattan is the tale of a young French scholar who travels to the United States in 1965 on a Fulbright Fellowship to consult the manuscripts of beloved authors. In Yale University’s Beinecke Library, tantalized by the conversational and epistolary brilliance of a fellow researcher, she is lured...
The Marrano Specter
Derrida and Hispanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
The Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derrida’s work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms...
So Conceived and So Dedicated
Intellectual Life in the Civil War-Era North
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
“Outstanding essays” exploring how educated Northerners viewed, and discussed, the Civil War (Michael B. Ballard, Civil War News).
With contributions from multiple historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the Civil War and implementing their vision of a...
How to Be an Intellectual
Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams’s...
Recoding World Literature
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association
Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies.
From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries,...
Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World
Justice in Jesuit Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World is an insightful collection that articulates how Jesuit colleges and universities create an educational community energized to transform the lives of its students, faculty, and administrators and to equip them to transform a broken world. The essays are...
Teaching Bodies
Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In Teaching Bodies, leading scholar of Christian thought Mark D. Jordan offers an original reading of the Summa of Theology of Thomas Aquinas. Reading backward, Jordan interprets the main parts of the Summa, starting from the conclusion, to reveal how Thomas teaches morals by directing attention to...
by Vanessa Lemm
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“This exciting collection of essays challenges existing interpretations of several key moments of Nietzsche’s philosophy.” —Paul Patton, Scientia Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia
Throughout his writing career, Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly...
Class Degrees
Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves in the historical mirror of high-school vocational education. Students in a vast range of institutions...
A Word from Our Sponsor
Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
During the “golden age” of radio, from roughly the late 1920s until the late 1940s, advertising agencies were arguably the most important sources of radio entertainment. Most nationally broadcast programs on network radio were created, produced, written, and/or managed by advertising agencies:...
Advances in Cyber Security
Technology, Operations, and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
As you read this, your computer is in jeopardy of being hacked and your identity being stolen. Read this book to protect yourselves from this threat.
The world’s foremost cyber security experts, from Ruby Lee, Ph.D., the Forrest G. Hamrick professor of engineering and Director of the Princeton...