Fordham University Press: 585 books
Stasis Before the State
Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure,...
The Trace of God
Derrida and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Derrida’s writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this debate. It considers Derrida’s fraught relationship to Judaism and his Jewish identity, broaches the question...
Speculative Grace
Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This book offers a novel account of grace framed in terms of Bruno Latour’s “principle of irreduction.” It thus models an object-oriented approach to grace, experimentally moving a traditional Christian understanding of grace out of a top-down, theistic ontology and into an agent-based, object-oriented...
Targets of Opportunity
On the Militarization of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe
the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against
Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional
structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This volume brings together scholarship that discusses late-medieval religious controversy on a pan-European scale, with particular attention to developments in England, Bohemia, and at the general councils of the fifteenth century. Controversies such as those that developed in England and Bohemia...
Creolizing Political Theory
Reading Rousseau through Fanon
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought,...
The Government of Life
Foucault, Biopolitics, and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2014
Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary...
Law and Revolution in South Africa
uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past dictatorships, how one reconstructs a new government is a burning issue.
South Africa, after a...
by Drucilla Cornell
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In this risk-taking book, a major feminist philosopher engages the work of the actor and director who has progressed from being the stereotypical “man’s man” to pushing the boundaries of the very genres—the Western, the police thriller, the war or boxing movie—most associated with American...
The Republic of the Living
Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book takes up Foucault’s hypothesis that liberal “civil society,” far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters...
Intercarnations
Exercises in Theological Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Intercarnations is an outstanding collection of provocative, elegantly written essays—many available in print for the first time—by renowned theologian Catherine Keller.
Affirmations of body, flesh, and matter pervade current theology and inevitably echo with the doctrine of the incarnation....
Resistance of the Sensible World
An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the three main phases of Merleau-Ponty’s thinking and a thorough knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts,...
The Storm at Sea
Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which...
Members of His Body
Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Building on scholarship regarding both biblical and early modern sexualities, Members of His Body protests the Christian defense of marital monogamy. According to the Paul who authors 1 Corinthians, believers would do well to remain single and focus instead on the messiah’s return. According to...