Fordham University Press: 585 books
Roman Catholicism in the United States
A Thematic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The essays written by established and newer scholars seeks to fill a void in the lacuna by bringing to bear the centrality of Catholic people, groups, and movements on U.S. history, mainly from the mid-19th century to the present, with the essays “linked by a common desire to enrich narratives of United States history.
Under Representation
The Racial Regime of Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
There has recently been a significant renewal of interest in aesthetics in both philosophy and in literary and cultural criticism, but this is the only book that addresses head-on the role that aesthetics has played in shaping modern conceptions of race and of representation.
Beyond Broadband Access
Developing Data-Based Information Policy Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
After broadband access, what next? What role do metrics play in understanding “information societies”? And, more important, in shaping their policies? Beyond counting people with broadband access, how can economic and social metrics inform broadband policies, help evaluate their outcomes, and...
Technicians of Human Dignity
Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Technicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian...
On the Edge of Freedom
The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In On the Edge of Freedom, David G. Smith breaks new ground by illuminating the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsylvania—a border region of a border state with a complicated
history of slavery, antislavery activism, and unequal freedom. During the antebellum decades...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book tests the proposition that the humanities can, and at their best do, represent a commitment to ethical reading. And that this commitment, and the training and discipline of close reading that underlie it, represent something that the humanities need to bring to other fields: to professional...
Taking AIM!
The Business of Being an Artist Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Taking Aim! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering
their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies...
Yes, But Not Quite
Encountering Josiah Royce's Ethico-Religious Insight
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book contends that Josiah Royce bequeathed to philosophy a novel idealism based on an ethico-religious insight. This insight became the basis for an idealistic personalism, wherein the Real is the personal and a metaphysics of community is the most appropriate approach to metaphysics for personal...
Pragmatism with Purpose
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Pragmatism with Purpose collects essays by the late Peter Hare, a leading proponent of the American philosophical tradition. The volume includes essays on “holistic pragmatism” that Hare developed in conversation with Morton White, as well as historical articles on William James and C. S. Peirce and commentaries on the profession.
by J. Hillis Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy.
The book’s topic is the question of how communities...
Reoccupy Earth
Notes toward an Other Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
The book offers an unfashionable but spirited defense of an enlightened anthropocentrism – one that insists not on the free human individual but on collective sustainable agency.
Mental Language
From Plato to William of Ockham
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The notion that human thought is structured like a language, with a precise syntax and semantics, has been pivotal in recent philosophy of mind. Yet it is not a new idea: it was systematically explored in the fourteenth century by William of Ockham and became central in late medieval philosophy. Mental...
by Jean-Luc Nancy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
An excellent volume for teaching, whether in art departments or in other fields concerned with the subject.
Dis-Enclosure
The Deconstruction of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and as an objectless hope, Nancy deconstructs Christianity in search of the...