Books published by Fordham University Press

"Fine-grained studies focused on specific passages of Levinas's texts move gradually to a persuasive interpretation of his two masterpieces." -John Llewelyn, University of Edinburgh

"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts.

Establishing a creative dialogue between Hegel and Kierkegaard, Taylor charts the historical background of philosophy.

A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights, 1861-1866, is an account of how laws, policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country's African American population were adopted during the Civil War.

Based on papers delivered at a conference, this volume probes different issues confronting Christian philosophy at the brink of the 21st century. Together with excerpts from the question and answer session, each paper and the concluding round table discussion are presented in distinct sections.

The author of this work explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed ways from other slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had access to power; and, even before legal emancipation, a large free black population lived there.

This text looks at the life of John Emory Bryant, a veteran of the Civil War who became a Carpetbagger in Georgia during the reconstruction era. It looks at his life in the army, and his work with the Freedman's Bureau, an organization designed to protect and assist newly freed slaves.

Circulating Being centers on the later works of Camus, Marcel, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to study the development of existential thinking about language, communicative life, ethics, and politics.