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Hardback. With a fresh, transdisciplinary approach, this title aims to probe the possibility of a green shift radical enough to permeate the ancient roots of our sensibility and the social sources of our practice. It explores our sense of how to proceed in the face of an ecological crisis that demands fresh thinking and acting. Editor(s): Kearns, Laurel; Keller, Catherine. Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia S. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLP5; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 44. Weight in Grams: 989.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780823227457
- ISBN
- 9780823227457
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.95
€ 118.95
Hardback. Contributes to the field of Islamic studies, philosophy, and comparative religion achieves a twofold objective. This work draws from various sources, especially in the domain of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism. It is an in-depth meditation on the relationship between love and knowledge, multiplicity and unity. Series: Abrahamic Dialogues. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; HRLP5. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227518
- ISBN
- 9780823227518
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 48.87
€ 52.99
€ 48.87
Paperback. A study on Descartes, that brings together essays on the topics of the ego and of God. It explores the alterity of the Cartesian ego. It closes with a careful delineation of the concept of causa sui and a detailed survey of the idea of God in seventeenth-century thought. Translator(s): Gschwandtner, Prof. Christina M. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227556
- ISBN
- 9780823227556
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 43.25
€ 47.99
€ 43.25
Hardback. In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a ferociously religious sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. This book investigates the content and implications of this religious sensibility by examining Bataille's insistent linking of monstrosity and the sacred. Num Pages: 372 pages, 5 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HP; HR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 270 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823227785
- ISBN
- 9780823227785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.40
€ 102.40
Hardback. For Thomas Aquinas the ontological and ethical orders are not autonomous but inseparable. This book shows how traditional Natural Law was transformed by thinkers like John Locke and Kant into a doctrine compatible with early modern and modern notions of nature and morality. Series: Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228539
- ISBN
- 9780823228539
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Condition: New
€ 76.95
€ 76.95
Hardback. A collection of talks given by Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, that take up questions surrounding human rights, faith and evolution, forgiveness, the death penalty, the doctrine of religious freedom, the population of hell, and a whole array of theological subjects, many of which intersect with culture and politics. Num Pages: 546 pages. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 163 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1964.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 546
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228621
- ISBN
- 9780823228621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardback. Derrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure underpinning Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is a complex, paradoxical relationality that corresponds to Derrida's 'plural logic of the aporia'. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 484 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 33. Weight in Grams: 769.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228744
- ISBN
- 9780823228744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.86
€ 113.86
Hardback. Chronicles the history, growth, and legacy of New York's largest Christian denomination. This book brings together images and original essays to explore the key dimensions of the Catholic experience in New York. It offers a pictorial record of Catholic struggles and triumphs, and thirteen essays that trace the story of Catholic New York. Editor(s): Golway, Terry. Num Pages: 224 pages, 75 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5193 x 6466 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1061.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229048
- ISBN
- 9780823229048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.33
€ 60.33
Hardback. "Opens a battlefront and conversation that is likely to preoccupy the next generation."-Tom Cohen, University at Albany Editor(s): Bono, James J. Num Pages: 283 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; H. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229192
- ISBN
- 9780823229192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.23
€ 92.23
Paperback. "Opens a battlefront and conversation that is likely to preoccupy the next generation."-Tom Cohen, University at Albany Num Pages: 283 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DS; H. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229208
- ISBN
- 9780823229208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.67
€ 41.99
€ 37.67
Hardback. Offers an investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. This book is suitable for those interested in the future of phenomenology or in a philosophy of life in the truest sense. Translator(s): Davidson, Professor Scott. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229437
- ISBN
- 9780823229437
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Condition: New
€ 92.23
€ 92.23
Paperback. Presents a genealogy and critique of the ideal of conscience in modern philosophical theology, particularly in the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. This title shows why the apparently emancipatory rejection of heteronomy compromised the ideal of self-legislated freedom. Num Pages: 222 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780823229659
- ISBN
- 9780823229659
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.32
€ 36.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Maurice Blanchot is a towering yet enigmatic figure in twentieth-century French thought. Both his fiction and his criticism played a determining role in how postwar French philosophy was written, especially in its intense concern with the question of writing as such. This volume collects his political writings from 1953 to 1993. Translator(s): Paul, Zakir. Series: French Voices. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823229987
- ISBN
- 9780823229987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.12
€ 46.99
€ 42.12
Hardback. Explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and covers the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole. This book argues that the animal is neither a random theme nor a metaphorical device in Nietzsche's thought. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 477.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230273
- ISBN
- 9780823230273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Paperback. Includes chapters that focus on Jacques Derrida's late work, including passages from the last. This book presents a series of perspectives on the heterogeneity of Derrida's work, or forays into that heterogeneity. It intends to render Derrida's writings justice. Num Pages: 381 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230341
- ISBN
- 9780823230341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 42.75
€ 47.99
€ 42.75
Hardback. The metaphor of the Church as a 'body' has shaped Catholic thinking since the Second Vatican Council. This book studies a cohort of Catholic authors whose art takes seriously the themes of the Council: from novelists such as Mary Gordon, Ron Hansen, Louise Erdrich, and J F Powers to poets such as Annie Dillard, Mary Karr and Lucia Perillo. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230600
- ISBN
- 9780823230600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.86
€ 71.86
Paperback. Translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. This book should be of concern to students of religion, and sexuality, especially as they impinge on questions of representation. It emphasizes the consequences for thinking about sexuality offered by Lucretian materialism. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCV4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823230679
- ISBN
- 9780823230679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.62
€ 41.99
€ 37.62
Paperback. Is nature undergoing fundamental change? What role does nature play in theological ethics? How might ethical deliberation proceed without nature in the future? This book brings leading natural and social scientists into conversation with prominent Christian theologians and ethicists to wrestle collectively with difficult questions. Editor(s): Albertson, David. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; RNP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 647.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230709
- ISBN
- 9780823230709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 46.59
€ 50.99
€ 46.59
Paperback. A posthumous collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997 which offers a direct introduction to the thinking of a writer who never abandoned his radically critical stance. It also provides a resume of his political ideas, in advance of their times and profoundly relevant to today's world. Editor(s): Escobar, Enrique. Translator(s): Arnold, Helen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSK; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230945
- ISBN
- 9780823230945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.85
€ 43.99
€ 39.85
Hardback. Presents a comprehensive study of Marion's texts on saturated phenomena and their place in his wider phenomenology of givenness, tracing both his theory and his examples across a wide range of texts. This book argues that a rich hermeneutics is implicit in Marion's examples of saturated phenomena but is not set out in his theory. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231089
- ISBN
- 9780823231089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.08
€ 86.08