Fordham University Press: 585 books
Poetics of History
Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The book presents a new and surprising philosophical reading of Rousseau’s thinking on theater and mimesis.
Futile Pleasures
Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2018 MLA Prize for a First Book
Against the defensive backdrop of countless apologetic justifications for the value of literature and the humanities, Futile Pleasures reframes the current conversation by returning to the literary culture of early modern England, a culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of Constantinople...
Harrying
Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Harrying considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare’s Henriad—Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and Henry V. Berger combines close reading with cultural analysis to show how the language characters speak always says more than the speakers mean to say.
Shakespeare’s...
The Digital Condition
Class and Culture in the Information Network
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has...
Rethinking God as Gift
Marion, Derrida, and the Limits of Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Rethinking God as Gift is situated at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory and theology. The first sustained study of the work of Jean-Luc Marion in English, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary questions and their theological relevance. Taking its point of departure from the...
Being Brains
Making the Cerebral Subject
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
This “interesting, informative, and provocative book” explores the pervasive influence of neuroscience and “the view that we are essentially our brains” (History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences).
Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that “we...
Citizen Subject
Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of Étienne Balibar’s career-long project to think the necessary and necessarily antagonistic...
Vladimir Jankélévitch
The Time of Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Vladimir Jankélévitch: The Time of Forgiveness traces the reflections of the French philosopher and musicologist Vladimir Jankelevitch on the conditions and temporality of forgiveness in relation to creation, history, and memory. The author demonstrates the influence of Jewish and Christian thought...
Misfit Forms
Paths Not Taken by the British Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
The complicated junctions negotiated by the novel during the eighteenth century reveal not only achievements but also exclusions. Misfit Forms offers a speculative reconstruction of roads less traveled. What if typographical emphasis and its associated transmission of sensuality and feeling had not...
The Face of the Other and the Trace of God
Essays on the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
The Face of the Other and the Trace of God contain essays on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and how his philosophy intersects with that of other philosophers, particularly Husserl, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Derrida. This collection is broadly divided into two parts: relations with the other, and the questions of God.
Questions of Phenomenology
Language, Alterity, Temporality, Finitude
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Françoise Dastur is well respected in France and Europe for her mastery of phenomenology as a movement and her clear and cogent explications of phenomenology in movement. These qualities are on display in this remarkable volume.
Dastur guides the reader through a series of phenomenological...
by Werner Hamacher
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, “95 Theses on Philology” and “For—Philology,” Hamacher propounds a notion...
by Jeffrey S. Librett
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid–twentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably...