Fordham University Press: 585 books
Is Critique Secular?
Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing...
by Judith Butler
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and...
On the Commerce of Thinking
Of Books and Bookstores
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Jean-Luc Nancy's On the Commerce of Thinking concerns the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. His reflection is born out of his relation to the bookstore, in the first place his neighborhood one, but beyond that any...
The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I
Culture, Philosophy, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Now back in print, and in paperback, these two classic volumes illustrate the scope and quality of Royce’s thought, providing the most comprehensive selection of his writings currently available. They offer a detailed presentation of the viable relationship Royce forged between the local experience...
On Being and Cognition
Ordinatio 1.3
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
In On Being and Cognition, the first complete translation into English of a pivotal text in the history of philosophy and theology, Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of cognition by developing his doctrine of the univocity of being, refuting...
Circuitous Journeys
Modern Spiritual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders and thinkers from a variety of religious and cultural traditions: Mohandas Gandhi, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm X, Paul Cowan,...
The Ethnography of Rhythm
Orality and Its Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature....
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In eleven brief, engaging talks originally broadcast on French public radio, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a philosopher’s rough and ready account of some of the pressing questions of our day and addresses chronic issues within philosophical inquiry. The fundamental question, which recurs again and again,...
by James I. Porter, Svetlana Boym, Elliot R. Wolfson
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Clarifies many aspects of the previously obscured or merely anecdotal relation between criticism and Jewishness in the twentieth century and beyond.
Riddles of Belonging
India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change.
Herself...
The Common Growl
Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously...
Political Concepts
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles,...
The Crane's Walk
Plato, Pluralism, and the Inconstancy of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In The Crane's Walk, Jeremy Barris seeks to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints with conflicting standards for truth--with the truth of each being entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. He argues that Plato's work expresses this kind of pluralism, and that this...
Last Things
Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Amid contemporary anxieties about the destruction of the planet, Khalip's book shows how the question of disappearance and lastnesss haunts the cultural imagination across a range of periods and genres.