Books published by Fordham University Press

An account of modern ideas of selfhood that juxtaposes the relation between confessor and woman mystic in late medieval texts with examples from the early history of psychoanalysis (Freud/Breuer) to show the importance of taking into account human connectedness, gender and religious practices when studying the history of modern identity.

The most accessible of Ricoeur's early texts, Fallible Man offers an introduction to phenomenological method.

Providing a synthesis of Byzantine Christian thought, this book offers an understanding of the Byzantine view of man, his destiny of deification, the evolution of Byzantium and its ability to survive under diverse historical circumstances.

This study examines the response of the Greek clergy to the experience of enemy occupation during World War II. In particular, it evaluates how these men reacted to Axis brutality, the nationwide famine, the Holocaust, and the growth of national resistance movements during the period.

This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies, that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture, e.g. the anthropological difference, the distinctions between natural object and cultural sign, noise and information, eye and gaze.

Analyzes Aristotle's natural philosophy and metaphysics from a feminist, deconstructive, psychoanalytic perspective, showing that Aristotelian teleology relies on the disparagement of chance and the feminine simultaneously and finding resources therein for contemporary feminist thought.

Nietzsche advocates the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life's becoming on earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche.

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. This edition of Fenollosa's important work is accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages.

Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was one of the most prolific and influential theologians of the twentieth century. This study seeks to show the fruitfulness of his thought by drawing out its philosophical implications for the question of truth.

Whitehead's response to the epistemological challenges of Hume and Kant in its most vivid and direct form.

This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999-2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars.

Reified Life delineates how financial and neoliberal capitalism, digital and bioengineering technologies are remaking historical concepts of the human, and documents their effects on culture, human rights, language and literature.