Fordham University Press: 585 books
Hating Empire Properly
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of
the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis
Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed...
Liturgical Power
Between Economic and Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secular politics? To this question, which animated the twentieth-century debate on political theology, Liturgical Power advances a third alternative. Christian...
Constellation
Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin in the Now-Time of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Constellation is the first extended exploration of the relationship between Walter Benjamin, the Weimar-era revolutionary cultural critic, and the radical philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The affinity between these noncontemporaneous thinkers serves as a limit case manifesting the precariousness and...
The Doppelganger
Literature's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796...
The Naked Communist
Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the “world” names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three...
Democracy's Spectacle
Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's accomplice?" Writing in 1842, Lydia Maria Child articulates a crisis in the relationship of democracy...
After Translation
The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean.
After...
Hollow Men
Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary...
Reconstructing Individualism
A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
America has a love–hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American...
The Rat That Got Away
A Bronx Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man’s odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional athlete and banker in Europe, but it is also provides a unique vantage point on the history of the Bronx and sheds new light on a neglected period in American urban history.
Allen...
Before the Fires
An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World’s Series at Yankee Stadium, “There it is, ladies and...
The Sentimental Touch
The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does...
by Jörg Kreienbrock
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Why do humans get angry with objects? Why is it that a malfunctioning computer, a broken tool, or a fallen glass causes an outbreak of fury? How is it possible to speak of an inanimate object’s recalcitrance, obstinacy, or even malice? When things assume a will of their own and seem to act out against...
Iterations of Loss
Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries....