Fordham University Press: 585 books
Cathedrals of Bone
The Role of the Body in Contemporary Catholic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The metaphor of the Church as a "body" has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. Its influence on theological inquiries into Catholic nature and practice is well-known; less obvious is the way it has shaped a generation of Catholic imaginative writers. Cathedrals of...
Mourning Philology
Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
“Pagan life seduces me a little more with each passing day. If it were possible today, I would change my religion and would joyfully embrace poetic paganism,” wrote the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan in 1908. During the seven years that remained in his life, he wrote largely in this “pagan”...
Cybertheology
Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Because the Internet has changed and is changing the ways in which we think and act, it must also be changing the ways in which we think Christianity and its theology. Cybertheology is the first book to explore this process from a Catholic point of view. Drawing on the theoretical work of authors...
Goods
Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Coccia is a leading younger figure in European thought, working between contemporary art and culture and a vast modern and premodern body of philosophical work.
Cytomegalovirus
A Hospitalization Diary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert...
by Richard A. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
The central thesis of Foucault’s Critical Ethics is that Foucault’s account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a framework within which ethics becomes possible. Tracing the evolution of Foucault’s analysis of power from his early articulations...
Figuring Violence
Affective Investments in Perpetual War
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
In the United States, the early years of the war on terror were marked by the primacy of affects like fear and insecurity. These aligned neatly with the state’s drive toward intensive securitization and an aggressive foreign policy. But for the broader citizenry, such affects were tolerable at best...
Exploring Lincoln
Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
In these 16 essays, Lincoln scholars offer fresh perspectives and revealing new research on the life and times of America’s greatest president.
Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both fascinating and irresistible....
by Marjorie Garber
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
“Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today.” —Publishers Weekly
As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays...
God's Mirror
Renewal and Engagement in French Catholic Intellectual Culture in the Mid–Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and...
Redemptive Hope
From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Obama
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This is a book about the need for redemptive narratives to ward off despair and the dangers these same narratives create by raising expectations that are seldom fulfilled. The quasi-messianic expectations produced by the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, and their diminution, were stark...
The Pleasures of Memory
Learning to Read with Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? “A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated?...
The Interval
Relation and Becoming in Irigaray, Aristotle, and Bergson
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
The Interval offers the first sustained analysis of the concept grounding Irigaray’s thought: the constitutive yet incalculable interval of sexual difference. In an extension of Irigaray’s project, Hill takes up her formulation of the interval as a way of rereading Aristotle’s concept of topos...
Confidentiality and Its Discontents
Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Freud promised his patients absolute confidentiality, regardless of what they revealed, but privacy in psychotherapy began to erode a half-century ago. Psychotherapists now seem to serve as “double agents” with a dual and often conflicting allegiance to patient and society. Some therapists even...