Fordham University Press: 585 books
Fueling Culture
101 Words for Energy and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another—from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next—transformed culture and society?...
Ecological Form
System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
Links environmental thought with postcolonial studies for a new understanding of Britsh Empire and Victorian literature.
by Erin McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Pets, People, and Pragmatism examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either benign or unnatural and to be avoided. The book addresses a lack of respect in pet–people relationships; for respectful relationships to be a real possibility, however, humans must...
A Pact with Vichy
Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Angelo Tasca, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian political history, and indeed European history, is frequently overshadowed by his Fascist opponent Mussolini or his Socialist and Communist colleagues (Gramsci and Togliatti). Yet, as Emanuel Rota reveals in this captivating biography, Tasca—also...
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
Too Great a Burden to Bear
The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In its brief seven-year existence, the Freedmen’s Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Historians have only recently begun to focus on the Bureau’s personnel in Texas, the individual agents termed the “hearts of Reconstruction.” Specifically addressing the historiographical...
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places
Justice Beyond and Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An impressive line-up of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines – law, but also anthropology, rhetoric, literature, history, geography, and race and ethnic studies.
Monkey Trouble
The Scandal of Posthumanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying.
The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient...
Levinas and the Night of Being
A Guide to Totality and Infinity
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after “end of metaphysics”? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated.
Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative...
Sensible Life
A Micro-ontology of the Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible...
Beyond Violence
Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
In an age of terrorism and other forms of violence committed in the name of religion, how can religion become a vehicle for peace, justice, and reconciliation? And in a world of bitter conflicts-many rooted in religious difference-how can communities of faith understand one another?
The essays...
Live Long and Prosper
How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
This pioneering new study of the Black megachurch phenomenon brings nuance and depth to the question, Are Black megachurches more focused on prosperity than on people?
Black megachurches and their pastors are often accused of failing to use their considerable resources to help the poor; focusing...
Messy Eating
Conversations on Animals as Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
A thought-provoking collection of interviews with a variety of scholars that weaves their intellectual and political orientations with their daily intimate practices of preparing and eating food.
by Judith P. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
What does it mean to lead a moral life?
In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.
Butler takes as her starting...