Books published by Fordham University Press

This volume offers studies on medieval education in the formal academic sense typical of schools and universities, and in a broader cultural sense that includes law, liturgy, and the religious orders of the high Middle Ages. Essays explore the transmission of knowledge during the middle ages in various kinds of educational communities.

One of the legendary reporters of World War II, the author covered important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe-from landings in Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio on the Italian front to Normandy, where he went ashore with the First Army Division. This book collects his dispatches that are classics of war journalism.

This selection of letters offers perspectives on the US experience during World War II. The first published correspondence between GI and CO brothers, the letters chronicle the military service and life on the home front. Frank and Albert Dietrich also argued about the uses of armed force and pacifist non-violence in the face of fascism and Nazism.

Does the philosophy of Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human.

This book dwells on elemental experiences that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. It pursues what is intimate yet universal: sleep, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. It looks at religion with an open mind, asking how philosophy might stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just vice versa.

This book studies the use of biblical quotations in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works, as well as Kierkegaard's hermeneutical methods in general. Kierkegaard's mode of writing in these works-indeed, the very method of indirect communication-consists in a certain appropriation of the Bible.

In the context of Holderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei poses a phenomenologically sensitive theory of poetic language and a "new poetics of Dasein," or being there.

Here, Allen Scult investigates being Jewish as embodying a way of understanding Heidegger's attempt to deal with complications in his early phenomenology. Scult uncovers significant ways in which Heidegger's fundamental ontology is grounded in the lived experience of religion.

Difference has been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy. This book offers reflections on what ideas and practices will drive the next generation of critical thinking.

This a collection of letters by Emma Spaulding who left behind rural Maine for a life in Georgia as the wife of radical Republican carpetbagger John Emory Bryant. Emma supported John's controversial agenda and became an independent thinker, teacher, suffragist, and officer in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

"A marvelous story... will be consulted as long as World War II and the Spanish Civil War are studied... Cane is a very good writer." Frank F. Mathias, author of The GI Generation: A Memoir