Fordham University Press imprint: 480 books
Bestiarium Judaicum
Unnatural Histories of the Jews
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals—pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, Bestiarium Judaicum asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories?
Focusing...
Cool
How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
It’s a contraption that makes the lists of “Greatest Inventions Ever”; at the same time, it’s accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people’s food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows. It has saved countless...
Their Other Side
Six American Women and the Lure of Italy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
“Our lives are Swiss,” Emily Dickinson wrote in 1859, “So still—so cool.” But over the Alps, “Italy stands the other side.” For Dickinson, as for many other writers and artists, Italy has been the land of light, a seductive source of invention, enchantment, and freedom.
So it...
Latinx Literature Unbound
Undoing Ethnic Expectation
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Brings attention to several contemporary writers that have received little or no critical attention, including Eduardo Halfón, Manuel Muñoz, Patricia Engel, and Amanda Calderón.
Commiserating with Devastated Things
Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Commiserating with Devastated Things seeks to understand the place Milan Kundera calls “the universe of the novel.” Working through Kundera’s oeuvre as well as the continental philosophical tradition, Wirth argues that Kundera transforms—not applies—philosophical reflection within literature.
Reading...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form—of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this sense, drawing opens less toward its achievement,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the...
The Matter of Voice
Sensual Soundings
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly...
Phantom Limbs
On Musical Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The prostheses Peter Szendy explores—those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments—are not only technical devices but also bodies that live a strange phantom life, as uncanny as a sixth finger or a third lung.
The musicological impulse to inventory those bodies that produce sound...
Listen
A History of Our Ears
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where exactly does the listener stand in relation to the music s/he listens to? What is the...
The Much-at-Once
Music, Science, Ecstasy, the Body
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
In this capstone work, the late Bruce Wilshire seeks to rediscover the fullness of life in the world by way of a more complete activation of the body’s potentials. Appealing to our powers of hearing and feeling, with a special emphasis on music, he engages a rich array of composers, writers, and...
Lincoln Revisited
New Insights from the Lincoln Forum
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In February 2009, America celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the pace of new Lincoln books and articles has already quickened. From his cabinet’s politics to his own struggles with depression, Lincoln remains the most written-about story in our history. And each year...
The Search for Major Plagge
The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero—and about one American doctor’s extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge’s story.
Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good’s book is the story of the German commander...
The Lincoln Assassination
Crime and Punishment Myth and MemoryA Lincoln Forum Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln...