Fordham University Press: 585 books
Giving Beyond the Gift
Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers—Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of these thinkers were keenly aware of the pitfalls of scriptural theism, to differing degrees they...
The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Emmanuel Falque’s The Wedding Feast of the Lamb represents a turning point in his thought. Here, Falque links philosophy and theology in an original fashion that allows us to see the full effect of theology’s “backlash” against philosophy.
By attending closely to the incarnation and...
Liturgical Theology after Schmemann
An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
While only rarely reflecting explicitly on liturgy, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) gave sustained attention to several themes pertinent to the interpretation of worship, including metaphor, narrative, subjectivity, and memory. Inspired by his well-known aphorism, “The symbol gives rise...
Crossing the Rubicon
The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In France today, philosophy—phenomenology in particular—finds itself in a paradoxical relation to theology. Some debate a “theological turn.” Others disavow theological arguments as if such arguments would tarnish their philosophical integrity, while nevertheless carrying out theology in other...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Phenomenologies of Scripture addresses two increasingly convergent disciplines: philosophy and biblical studies. On the one hand, the recent “theological turn” in phenomenology has established religion as a legitimate area of phenomenological inquiry. If that turn is to be enduringly successful,...
Thou Shalt Not Kill
A Political and Theological Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In this fascinating and rare little book, a leading Italian feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill.
The result is a series of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that move from murder and suicide to just...
Believing in Order to See
On the Rationality of Revelation and the Irrationality of Some Believers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Faith and reason, especially in Roman Catholic thought, are less contradictory today than ever. But does the supposed opposition even make sense to begin with? One can lose faith, but surely not because one gains in reason. Some, in fact, lose faith when reason is not able to make sense of the experiences...
Colonizing Christianity
Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek...
Derrida after the End of Writing
Political Theology and New Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
What are we to make of Jacques Derrida’s famous claim that “every other is every other,” if the other could also be an object, a stone or an elementary particle? Derrida’s philosophy is relevant not just for human ethical language and animality, but to profound developments in the physical...
The Rebellious No
Variations on a Secular Theology of Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This book aims to renew theological thinking by extending and radicalizing an iconoclastic and existentialist mode of thought. It proposes a theology whose point of departure assumes and accepts the critiques of religion launched by Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Feuerbach but nevertheless takes theological...
Quiet Powers of the Possible
Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Quiet Powers of the Possible offers an excellent introduction to contemporary French phenomenology through a series of interviews with its most prominent figures.
Guided by rigorous questions that push into the most important aspects of the latest phenomenological research, the book gives readers...
Divinanimality
Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development has been the remarkable body of animal theory issuing from such thinkers as Jacques Derrida and Donna...
Benjamin's Passages
Dreaming, Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” Benjamin’s effort to transpose the dream...
Words Fail
Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the “thing itself” beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the writings of a trio of philosophers—Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Giorgio Agamben—as...