Fordham University Press: 585 books
by Matthew Stratton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Shortlisted for the 2015 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize
This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw “irony” emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations...
Giorgio Agamben
Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Agamben’s thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how throughout his career Agamben has consistently and closely engaged (critically, sympathetically, polemically,...
The Entrapments of Form
Cruelty and Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Arguing that cruelty acquires a new meaning in modernity, The Entrapments of Form follows its evolution through exchanges between French and American literature over the contradictions of Enlightenment (slavery, genocide, libertine aristocratic privilege). Catherine Toal traces Edgar Allan Poe’s...
Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ
German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls “Romantic organology.” Scientific and philosophical notions of biological function and speculative thought converged to form the discourse that Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ reconstructs—a metaphysics meant to theorize,...
The Writing of Spirit
Soul, System, and the Roots of Language Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Contemporary thought has been profoundly shaped by the early-twentieth-century turn toward synchronic models of explanation, which analyze phenomena as they appear at a single moment, rather than diachronically as they develop through time. But the relationship between time and system remains unexplained...
Celebricities
Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go “back to the things themselves” when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities...
Committing the Future to Memory
History, Experience, Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In examining what it means...
Apocalyptic Futures
Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic...
Empire's Wake
Postcolonial Irish Writing and the Politics of Modern Literary Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Shedding new light on the rich intellectual and political milieux shaping the divergent legacies of Joyce and Yeats, Empire’s Wake traces how a distinct postcolonial modernism emerged within Irish literature in the late 1920s to contest and extend key aspects of modernist thought and aesthetic innovation...
The Reject
Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.
Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows...
The Feminine Symptom
Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The first English-language study of Aristotle’s natural philosophy from a continental perspective, the Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring. If form is transmitted by the male and the female provides only matter, how is a female child produced? Aristotle answers...
The Future Life of Trauma
Partitions, Borders, Repetition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a groundbreaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourse. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as presented in the Freudian metapsychology, it thinks anew the relation...
Marginal Modernity
The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Two ways of understanding the aesthetic organization of literary works have come down to us from the late 18th century and dominate discussions of European modernism today: the aesthetics of autonomy, associated with the self-sufficient work of art, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, practiced by...
Decreation and the Ethical Bind
Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In Simone Weil’s philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other’s self-affirmation and one’s own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing....