Fordham University Press: 585 books
The Metamorphosis of Finitude
An Essay on Birth and Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This book starts off from a philosophical premise: nobody can be in the world unless they are born into the world. It examines this premise in the light of the theological belief that birth serves, or ought to serve, as a model for understanding what resurrection could signify for us today. After...
by Luis Felipe Alencastro, Jaime Hanneken, Jason Frydman
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies,...
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The Political after the Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Offers an original and compelling treatment of what it means to resist the us/them dichotomy that plagues even the most liberal conventional accounts of politics.
by Robert Scully
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
First published in 1932, A Scarlet Pansy is an extraordinarily vivid and richly textured depiction of American queer life in the early twentieth century, tracing the coming-of-age of androgynous Fay Etrange. Born in small-town Pennsylvania and struggling with her difference, Fay eventually accepts...
Imagined Sovereignties
Toward a New Political Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it.
Articulating the link between the poetic imagination and secularized sovereignty...
The Mark of Theory
Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
What imaginaries, tropes, and media have shaped how we theorize? The Mark of Theory argues that inscription constitutes one of the master metaphors of contemporary theory.
As a trope that draws on a wide array of practices of marking, from tattooing to circumcision, from photographic imprints...
The Rigor of Things
Conversations with Dan Arbib
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
In a series of conversations, Jean-Luc Marion reconstructs a career’s path in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology. Discussing such concepts as the event, the gift, and the saturated phenomenon, Marion elaborates the rigor displayed by the things themselves. He discusses the major...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this volume speaks about the practice in an...
Disappointment
Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of Worldbuilding
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment responds to this call by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement...
The Perils of Uglytown
Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls “structural misanthropology.” Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates’s self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
For a generation and more, the contribution of Christian theology to interreligious understanding has been a subject of debate. Some think of theological perspectives are of themselves inherently too narrow to support interreligious learning, and argue for an approach that is neutral or, on a more...
Wording the World
Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das’s work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of responsibility....
by Peggy Kamuf
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Timely commentary on Derrida’s engagement with the issue of capital punishment by one of his most prominent interpreters.
The Retreats of Reconstruction
Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Beginning in the 1880s, the economic realities and class dynamics of popular northern resort towns unsettled prevailing assumptions about political economy and threatened segregationist practices. Exploiting early class divisions, black working-class activists staged a series of successful protests...