Fordham University Press: 585 books
The Alchemy of Empire
Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Named 'Top 6' South Asia studies publications of 2016 by the British Association for South Asian Studies
The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like...
Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk
A Rhetoric of Rhythm
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and...
The Techne of Giving
Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Over the last five years, corporations and individuals have given more money, more often, to charitable organizations than ever before. What could possibly be the downside to inhabiting a golden age of gift-giving? That question lies at the heart of Timothy Campbell’s account of contemporary giving...
The Right to Narcissism
A Case for an Im-possible Self-love
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This book aims to wrest the concept of narcissism from its common and pejorative meanings— egoism and vanity—by revealing its complexity and importance. DeArmitt undertakes the work of rehabilitating “narcissism” by patiently reexamining the terms and figures that have been associated with...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal...
The French of Outremer
Communities and Communications in the Crusading Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The establishment of feudal principalities in the Levant in the wake of the First Crusade (1095-1099) saw the beginning of a centuries-long process of conquest and colonization of lands in the eastern Mediterranean by French-speaking Europeans. This book examines different aspects of the life and...
Sodomscapes
Hospitality in the Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Sodomscapes presents a fresh approach to the story of Lot’s wife, as it’s been read across cultures and generations. In the process, it reinterprets foundational concepts of ethics, representation, and the body. While the sudden mutation of Lot’s wife in the flight from Sodom is often read to...
Shakespeare as a Way of Life
Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Shakespeare as a Way of Life shows how reading Shakespeare helps us to live with epistemological weakness and even to practice this weakness, to make it a way of life. In a series of close readings, Kuzner shows how Hamlet, Lucrece, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens,...
Light and Death
Figuration in Spenser, Kepler, Donne, Milton
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Light figures being; darkness, death. Bridging mathematical science, semantics, rhetoric, grammar, and major poems, Judith H. Anderson seeks to negotiate writings from multiple disciplines in the shared terms of poiesis and figuration rather than as cultural opposites.
Analogy, a type of metaphor,...
Wild Dreams
The Best of Italian Americana
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
For more than thirty years, the journal Italian Americana has been home to the writers who have sparked an extraordinary literary explosion in Italian-American culture. Across twenty-five volumes, its poets, memoirists, story-tellers, and other voices bridged generations to forge a brilliant body...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
In the Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin writes that his work is “related to theology as blotting pad is related to ink. It is saturated with it.” For a thinker so decisive to critical literary, cultural, political, and aesthetic writings over the past half-century, Benjamin’s relationship to...
An Atmospherics of the City
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?
An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire’s evolution from a writer who...
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity
Toward an African American Religious Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Identifying African American religiosity as the ingenuity of a people constantly striving to inhabit their humanity and eke out a meaningful existence for themselves amid harrowing circumstances, Black Lives and Sacred Humanity constructs a concept of sacred humanity and grounds it in the writings...
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The Politics of Politics in Foucault, Heidegger, and Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What if political rhetoric is unavoidable, an irreducible part of politics itself? In contrast to the familiar denunciations of political horse-trading, grandstanding, and corporate manipulation from those lamenting the crisis in liberal democracy, this book argues that the “politics of politics,”...