Fordham University Press: 585 books
Realizing Capital
Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Kornbluh explores the effect on notions of psychic economy on the shift to venture capital in Victorian England.
To Bear Witness
Updated, Revised, and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
For more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world, as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and relief efforts around the globe. In this revised and expanded edition, he chronicles extraordinary achievements of compassion...
Political Magic
British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650-1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Political Magic examines early modern British fictions of exploration and colonialism, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact reimagine ideas of sovereignty and popular power. These fictions reveal aspects of political thought in this period that official discourse typically shunted aside,...
Saintly Influence
Edith Wyschogrod and the Possibilities of Philosophy of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Since the publication of her first book, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, in 1974-the first book about Levinas published in English-Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. Her work has crossed many disciplinary...
Racial Fever
Freud and the Jewish Question
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences?
These questions are at the heart of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question....
Religion of the Field Negro
On Black Secularism and Black Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Black theology has lost its direction. To reclaim its original power and to advance racial justice struggles today black theology must fully embrace blackness and theology. But multiculturalism and religious pluralism have boxed in black theology, forcing it to speak in terms dictated by a power structure...
by John Lachs
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Freedom and Limits is a defense of the value of freedom in the context of human finitude. A contribution to the American tradition of philosophy, it focuses attention on moral problems as we encounter them in daily life, where the search for perfection and the incessant drive to meet obligations make...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Connecting Renaissance humanism to the variety of “critical posthumanisms” in twenty-first-century literary and cultural theory, Renaissance Posthumanism reconsiders traditional languages of humanism and the human, not by nostalgically enshrining or triumphantly superseding humanisms past but...
More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church
Voices of Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This volume, like its companion, Voices of Our Times, collects essays drawn from a series of public conferences held in autumn 2011 entitled “More than a Monologue.” The series was the fruit of collaboration among four institutions of higher learning: two Catholic universities and two nondenominational...
Questioning the Human
Toward a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Theological anthropology is being put to the test: in the face of contemporary developments in the spheres of culture, politics, and science, traditional perspectives on the human person are no longer adequate. Yet can theological anthropology move beyond its previously established categories and...
Women of Faith
The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
When the Sisters of Mercy lost their foundress Sister Catherine McAuley in 1841, stories of Mother Catherine passed from one generation of sisters to the next. McAuley’s Rule and Constitutions along with her spiritual writings and correspondence communicated the Mercys’ founding charism. Each...
Plasticity and Pathology
On the Formation of the Neural Subject
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Two leading neuroscientists examine the current paradigm of the “neural subject” and what we can learn from neurological trauma, pathology, and adaption.
With the rise of cognitive science and the revolution in neuroscience, the study of human subjects—thinking, feeling, acting individuals—ultimately...
Corporate Romanticism
Liberalism, Justice, and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. In early nineteenth-century England, two developments—the rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial action—undermined the basic assumption underpinning both...
The Weight of Love
Affect, Ecstasy, and Union in the Theology of Bonaventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Supplementing theological interpretation with historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives, The Weight of Love analyzes the nature and role of affectivity in medieval Christian devotion through an original interpretation of the writings of the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure. It intervenes...