Books published by Fordham University Press

Moses and Monotheism brings together fundamental new contributions to discourses on Freud and Moses, as well as new research on the intersections of theology, political theory, and history in Freud's psychoanalytic work.

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.

Suspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancementand withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph's ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portraitcontinue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.

The story of Celso Cesare Moreno who traveled the world lying, scheming, and building an extensive patron/client network to expand western trade and imperialism in Asia, traffick migrant workers and children in the Atlantic, influence the fate of Hawaii, and meddle in international affairs during a critical era of imperial expansion.

Secular Lyrics interrogates the distinctivelyindividual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and renaissanceconventions of lyric expression to the developing conditions of their moderncontext, and especially to the heterogeneity of beliefs and believers in asecular society and to the altered role that literature assumes in a secularage.

Beginning with a reading of Plato's Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato's thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers-or invents-a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is commonly called life.

This book theorizes the extraordinary regimes of humanmental experience by putting the emphasis on poetry. Poetry grants us the ability to move beyond the very limitsof thought. This essay is at the interface of literary theory, cognitivescience and philosophy and is uniquely comparative, encompassing dozens ofdifferent traditions, from all continents, from Ancient times to now.

Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930ΓÇô2004), with its relentless interrogation of the anthropocentric metaphysics of presence, has already proven highly influential in posthumanism and animal studies, the present volume, drawing on published and unpublished work by Derrida and others, builds on these insights to address the most pressing environmental issues of our time.The volume brings together fifteen prominent scholars, from a wide variety of related fields, including eco-phenomenology, eco-hermeneutics, new materialism, posthumanism, animal studies, vegetal philosophy, science and technology studies, environmental humanities, eco-criticism, earth art and aesthetics, and analytic environmental ethics. Overall, eco-deconstruction offers an account of differential relationality explored in a non-totalizable ecological context that addresses our times in both an ontological and a normative register.The book is divided into four sections. ΓÇ£Diagnosing the PresentΓÇ¥ suggests that our times are marked by a facile, flattened-out understanding of time and thus in need of deconstructive dispositions. ΓÇ£EcologiesΓÇ¥ mobilizes the spectral ontology of deconstruction to argue for an originary environmentality, the constitutive ecological embeddedness of mortal life. ΓÇ£Nuclear and Other Biodegradabilities,ΓÇ¥ examines remains, including such by-products and disintegrations of human culture as nuclear waste, environmental destruction, and species extinctions. ΓÇ£Environmental EthicsΓÇ¥ seeks to uncover a demand for justice, including human responsibility for suffering beings, that emerges precisely as a response to original differentiation and the mortality and unmasterable alterity it installs in living beings. As such, the book will resonate with readers not only of philosophy, but across the humanities and the social and natural sciences.

The Self-Emptying Subject engages Christian mystical theology, modern philosophy, and contemporary theories of the subject to theorize an ethics of self-emptying, or kenosis, that reveals the immanence of a dispossessed life "without a why."

The simplicityof gentleness is misleading. It is an active passivity that may become anextraordinary force of symbolic resistance and, as such, become central to bothethics and politics. Gentleness is a force of secret life-giving transformationlinked to what the ancients called potentiality. Gentleness is a power.

Perhaps no function of the press is as important as being a watchdog over the government. Based on the first content analysis to focus specifically on accountability journalism nationally, this book shows how American newspapers held fast to the watchdog role in the digital age, despite financial and technological challenges.

French philosopher Paul Ricoeur gave sustained attention to several themes pertinent to a hermeneutics of liturgy, including symbol, metaphor, narrative, subjectivity and memory. This book explores how Ricoeur's original insights may serve to renew contemporary Orthodox liturgical theology. The Byzantine-Rite "Great Blessing of Water" serves as a case study.

This essay collection further familiarizes the English-speaking world with the work of late German media scholar Friedrich Kittler. It features well-established and emergent scholars who present investigations that traverse all of Kittler's major phases, from early studies of German romanticism to his recent volumes on ancient Greece.