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The essays in this volume interrogate the problem of modern/colonial definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize such de...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Luc NancyTranslator: Charlotte MandellIn this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes...

DescriptionWinner, Grand Prize, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationThe Space Age is over? Not at all A new planet has...

DescriptionWinner, French Voices Grand PrizeNostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short...

This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today...

Reducere. Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritar...

Reducere. During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recen...

Reducere. The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of ...

Reducere. Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita, rhetorical virtuosity, and...

This poignant memoir, based on the author's thirty-eight-year friendship with Governor Cuomo, portrays the spiritual journey of a man who played ma...

The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative ...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Gila AshtorNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 235 x 22Cover type: HardbackRe...

Reducere. Winner, Prix Littéraire Paris-Liège 2021 Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation When we speak of mass killers, w...

Class Acts looks at two often neglected aspects of Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public lectures and his teaching, along with the question o...

Reducere. Bearing witness to the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic When New York City went into lockdown in March 2020, spiritual leader Micah Bucey found ...

Publisher: Fordham University PressNumber of pages: 320Collection: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across TraditionsPublication date: 2021Dimensions...

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corpo...

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Reducere. It is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul's quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, princip...

Reducere. In this classic work, Adler explores how man differs from all other things in the universe, bringing to bear both philosophical insight and informe...

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighb...

Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the B...

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholar...

What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, a...

This book makes a case for infrapolitics as an enactment of intellectual responsibility in the face of a tumultuous world of war and of technologic...

Reducere. An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through t...

Analyzes Aristotle's natural philosophy and metaphysics from a feminist, deconstructive, psychoanalytic perspective, showing that Aristotelian tele...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): A. W. StrouseNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 235 x 20Cover type: Hardback...

A profound and affecting meditation on art and revolutionPublisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Rachel WeissIllustration(s): 4 b/w illustrat...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Kate HeslopIllustration(s): 10 color illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Collection: Fordham Series in M...

Reducere. From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time examines how contracted service labor performed by F...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Neal DeRooNumber of pages: 240Collection: Perspectives in Continental PhilosophyPublication date: 202...

Reified Life delineates how financial and neoliberal capitalism, digital and bioengineering technologies are remaking historical concepts of the hu...

Publisher: Fordham University PressIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 334Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 27Cover ty...

Perhaps no other function of a free press is as important as the watchdog role--its ability to monitor the work of the government. It is easier for...

This book argues that Christian theology must be done in conversation with other religions. The book integrates theology of religious diversity, co...

Reducere. Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence present...

The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City's most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, u...

Reducere. We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial-colonial violence. Lo...

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Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with an earlier affective turn that took place in European music theory of ...

An interdisciplinary collaboration that explores what it means to live with concepts, rather than think of them as mere tools for analysis.About au...

The book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with his...

This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia's third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life...

Focused on Venezuela but relevant to the rest of Latin America, this is a genealogical investigation of the intrinsically populist "monumental gove...

Reducere. The first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineering Situated in the borough of Queens, New York, Sunnys...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very ho...

Reducere. What does it mean to connect as a people through mass media? This book approaches that question by exploring how Moroccans engage communicative fai...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): John CaherIllustration(s): 25 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jill JonnesIllustration(s): 48 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependen...

Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move bey...

DescriptionThis book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinic...

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating d...

Is it a good time to be alive? Is ours a good society to be alive in? Is it possible to have a good life in our time? And finally, does a good life...

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Reducere. The definitive edition of Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin's Easy Essays, including 74 previously unpublished works Although Peter Maurin is ...

The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study t...

The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable myster...

Reducere. DescriptionPracticing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, p...

The story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade an...

Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter's questioning of modern/colonial descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine of Man interrogate ...

Reducere. A scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the ...

Reducere. Gerald J. Beyer's Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to embody Catholic s...

Reducere. James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling commu...

Reducere. Contemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century European philosophy, as new materialisms ...

Publisher: Fordham University PressAuthor(s): Jun Hwan ParkIllustration(s): 8 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Collection: Thinking from Elsewh...

What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim? Documenting everyday life in Lamu (Kenya), this book explores the mundane practices of behavior ...