Fordham University Press: 585 books
From Slave Ship to Harvard
Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
“Part historical narrative, part genealogical detective work,” this is t****he true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations (Library Journal).
Using diaries, court records, legal documents, books, paintings, photographs, and oral histories, From Slave Ship to...
Pure Act
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Excellence in Publishing Award, Association of Catholic Publishers
Honorable Mention, Catholic Press Association Book Award
Finalist, Washington State Book Award
Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas...
Combat Reporter
Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
“No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it.”—from the Foreword, by Rick Atkinson
Winner of two Pulitzer...
Scare Tactics
Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors...
Public Things
Democracy in Disrepair
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health .State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and privatization is seen as a magic cure for social ills. In Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair, Bonnie Honig...
The Rose Man of Sing Sing
A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer’s New York Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly—and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus...
Art and Morality
Essays in the Spirit of George Santayana
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The guiding theme of these essays by aesthetician, musician, and Santayana scholar Morris Grossman is the importance of preserving the tension between what can be unified and what is disorganized, random, and miscellaneous. Grossman described this as the tension between art and morality: Art arrests...
The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume II
Logic, Loyalty, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Now back in print, and in paperback, these two classic volumes illustrate the scope and quality of Royce’s thought, providing the most comprehensive selection of his writings currently available. They offer a detailed presentation of the viable relationship Royce forged between the local experience...
Time Travel
The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are represented in the form of literal devices...
Responding to Loss
Heideggerian Reflections on Literature, Architecture, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Much recent philosophical work proposes to illuminate dilemmas of human existence with reference to the arts and culture, often to the point of submitting particular works to preconceived formulations. In this examination of three texts that respond to loss, Robert Mugerauer responds with close, detailed...
Theory at Yale
The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This book examines the affinity between “theory” and “deconstruction” that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the “Yale Critics”: Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
With...
In the Place of Language
Literature and the Architecture of the Referent
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but...
by George Washington Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861–1865 (originally published in 1888) by pioneer African American historian George Washington Williams remains a classic text in African American literature and Civil War history. In this powerful narrative, Williams, who served in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This collection represents the rediscovery of Josiah Royce’s rich legacy that has occurred over the past decade.
The first part presents a series of historical explorations. The second takes up practical extensions of Royce’s work, bringing his ideas and methods to bear on contemporary...