Fordham University Press: 585 books
Tropical Medicine
A Clinical Text, 8th Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The history of tropical medicine is as dramatic as the story of humankind. It has its own myths and legends, including tales of epidemics that destroyed whole civilizations. Today, with silent stealth, tropical diseases still claim more lives than all the current wars combined. Having had the privilege...
Trauma and Transcendence
Suffering and the Limits of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Trauma theory has become a burgeoning site of research in recent decades, often demanding interdisciplinary reflections on trauma as a phenomenon that defies disciplinary ownership. While this research has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions of trauma itself,...
Husserl
German Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
The translations read well and render Husserl's key technical terms in a uniform manner.
The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name
Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name provides an accessible, nonmathematical, and comprehensive overview of von Foerster’s cybernetic ideas and of...
Entangled Worlds
Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created....
Cultural Techniques
Grids, Filters, Doors, and Other Articulations of the Real
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of...
Ecospirit
Religions and Philosophies for the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
We hope—even as we doubt—that the environmental crisis can be controlled. Public awareness of our species’ self-destructiveness as material beings in a material world is growing—but so is the destructiveness. The practical interventions needed for saving and restoring the earth will require...
Neighbors and Missionaries
A History of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine community was founded in 1910 by marion gurney, who adopted the religious name Mother Marianne of Jesus. A graduate of Wellesley College and a convert to Catholicism,
Gurney had served as head resident at St. Rose’s Settlement, the first Catholic settlement...
Ecclesiastical Knights
The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
“Warrior monks”—the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century—have long fascinated general readers and professional historians alike. Proposing “ecclesiastical knights” as a more accurate name and conceptual model—warriors...
by Peter Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Temporality and Trinity argues that there is deep homology between the roles of temporal problematic in Augustine’s On Trinity and Heidegger’s Being and Time.
Although Heidegger was aware of On Trinity, the claim is not that he writes under its influence. Rather, Manchester moves from the...
Liberation through Reconciliation
Jon Sobrino's Christological Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In the past one hundred years alone, more than 200 million people have been killed as a consequence of systematic repression, political revolutions, or ethnic or religious war. The legacy of such violence lingers long after the immediate conflict. Drawing on the author’s experiences of his native...
Passing on the Faith
Transforming Traditions for the Next Generation of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
From the beginning, the Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—have stressed the importance of transmitting religious identity from one generation to the next. Today, that sustaining mission has never been more challenged. Will young people have a faith to guide them? How can faith...
What Is Talmud?
The Art of Disagreement
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
True disagreements are hard to achieve, and even harder to maintain, for the ghost of final agreement constantly haunts them. The Babylonian Talmud, however, escapes from that ghost of agreement, and provokes unsettling questions: Are there any conditions under which disagreement might constitute...
Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return
Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Migrant Hearts and the Atlantic Return examines contemporary migration in the context of a Roman Catholic Church eager to both comprehend and act upon the movements of peoples. Combining extensive fieldwork with lay and religious Latin American migrants in Rome and analysis of the Catholic Church’s...