Fordham University Press: 585 books
Antebellum Posthuman
Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?” to the Civil Rights-era declaration “I AM a Man,” antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of black humanity. It has done so, however, even as the very definition of the human has been called into...
Will as Commitment and Resolve
An Existential Account of Creativity, Love, Virtue, and Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In contemporary philosophy, the will is often regarded as a sheer philosophical fiction. In Will as Commitment and Resolve, Davenport argues not only that the will is the central power of human agency that makes decisions and forms intentions but also that it includes the capacity to generate new...
War Pictures
Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain’s filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented...
Postcards from Rio
Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.
By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa...
Atopias
Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside “atopia”: not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that...
Spiritual Grammar
Genre and the Saintly Subject in Islam and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Spiritual Grammar identifies a genre of religious literature that until now has not been recognized as such. In this surprising and theoretically nuanced study, F. Dominic Longo reveals how grammatical structures of language addressed in two medieval texts published nearly four centuries apart, from...
by John Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
“This book will reward scholars across a number of disciplines: literary studies, trauma studies, psychoanalysis and psychology, and philosophy.” —Choice
This book argues that Freud’s mapping of trauma as a scene is central to both his clinical interpretation of his patients’ symptoms...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Understanding the complex nature of international humanitarian action—particularly following natural disasters or armed conflicts—has been the mission of this unique series. This book explores the cutting-edge concerns that will affect how assistance is offered in the future.
Featuring...
The Babylon Complex
Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Babylon is a surprisingly multivalent symbol in U.S. culture and politics. Political citations of Babylon range widely, from torture at Abu Ghraib to depictions of Hollywood glamour and decadence. In political discourse, Babylon appears in conservative ruminations on democratic law, liberal appeals...
Education at War
The Fight for Students of Color in America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Will appeal to researchers, educators, policy actors, youth and community advocates as well as general readers interested in the future of education in America.
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Disasters in an Era of Diminishing Resources
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Natural and human-made disasters are increasing around the world. Hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, and resultant famine, floods, and armed conflicts are constant reminders of the frailty of our human race. Global warming may cause whole island states to be submerged as the oceans...
Earth, Life, and System
Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural...
Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems
Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near future, still more important than they have ever been before." Like his student W. E. B. Du Bois in Souls of Black Folk (1903), Royce recognized that the...
Murderous Consent
On the Accommodation of Violent Death
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
This book argues for a radical understanding of our international responsibilities and our implication in the violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit.