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Hardback. Engages a neglected dimension of Charles S Peirce's philosophy, human embodiment, to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism focusing on feminism and race theory. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 33. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232956
- ISBN
- 9780823232956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.76
€ 82.76
Hardback. The Jesuit Relations, written by new world jesuit missionaries from 1632 to 1673 back to their Superior in France, have long been a remarkable source of both historical knowledge and spiritual inspiration. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232628
- ISBN
- 9780823232628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.45
€ 60.45
hardcover. Outlines Jacques Derrida's thinking on sovereignty in relation to subjectivity through an investigation of the late work "Rogues: Two Essays on Reason". This book detects in Derrida's thinking of sovereignty - a theme that increasingly attracted him towards the end of his life - the outline of Bataille's adaptation of Freud. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- SKU
- V9780823232413
- ISBN
- 9780823232413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.57
€ 91.57
The Great Task Remaining Before Us. Reconstruction as America's Contin...
Miller, Randall M.. Ed(S): Cimbala, Paul A.
Hardback. Through informative case studies, this illuminating book remaps considerations of the Civil War and Reconstruction era by charting the ways in which the needs, interests, and experiences of going to war, fighting it, and making sense of it informed and directed politics, public life, social change, and cultural memory after the war's end. Editor(s): Cimbala, Paul A. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232024
- ISBN
- 9780823232024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.50
€ 113.50
Hardback. "Augustine's Confessions" is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? In this book, three scholars who share a long-standing fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt just that. It also offers a multivocal literary-philosophical meditation on the seductive elusiveness of desire, bodies, language, and God. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 389.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231935
- ISBN
- 9780823231935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.87
€ 102.87
Hardback. What does it mean to be called human? How does this nomination affect or effect what it means to be called divine? This book responds to these related questions in intertwined explorations of the passionate trials - examinations, tests, and ordeals - of Antigone and Jesus. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231652
- ISBN
- 9780823231652
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.32
€ 83.32
hardcover. What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? This book focuses on these questions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ; JFSR1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823231416
- ISBN
- 9780823231416
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.28
€ 109.28
Race Questions, Provincialism, and Other American Problems
Royce, Josiah; Sullivan, Shannon. Ed(S): Prat...
Hardback. Though left out of the mainstream of academic philosophy, Royce's conception of community influenced generations of leaders who sought to end racial, religious, and national prejudice, including Martin Luther King, Jr. This book includes an introduction to Royce's philosophy of loyalty. Editor(s): Pratt, Scott L. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231324
- ISBN
- 9780823231324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.66
€ 103.66
The United States and the Second World War. New Perspectives on Diplom...
Pash, Sidney. Ed(S): Piehler, G. Kurt
Hardback. Offers a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War Editor(s): Piehler, G. Kurt. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 695.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231201
- ISBN
- 9780823231201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20
€ 88.20
Hardback. Presents a first person account of two of the heroes of World War II and of the love that they shared across the years and miles. Editor(s): Edmundson, Celia. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 252 pages, 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BJ; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 533.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230969
- ISBN
- 9780823230969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.51
€ 60.51
Hardback. A collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997. It provides a resume of his political ideas. It includes a chapter that presents the concept, central to his thinking, of 'imaginary significations' as what make a society 'cohere'. 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: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230938
- ISBN
- 9780823230938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.08
€ 120.08
Hardback. Examines and displays the influence of Edith Wyschogrod's work in essays that take up the thematics of influence in a variety of contexts: Christian theology, the saintly behavior of the villagers of Le Chambon sur Lignon, the texts of the medieval Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia, the philosophies of Levinas, Derrida, and Benjamin. Editor(s): Boynton, Eric. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230877
- ISBN
- 9780823230877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.51
€ 109.51
Hardback. Accuses Levinas, Henry, Marion, and Chrtien of veering from phenomenological neutrality to a theologically inflected phenomenology. This title interrogates whether phenomenology's proper starting point is agnostic or atheistic. Editor(s): Benson, Bruce Ellis. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230723
- ISBN
- 9780823230723
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.58
€ 98.58
Hardback. How might ethical deliberation proceed 'without nature' in the future? What does the religious drive to transform human nature have to do with the technological quest to transcend human limits? This book brings natural and social scientists into conversation with Christian theologians and ethicists to wrestle collectively with these questions. Editor(s): Albertson, David. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM; RNP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 841.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230693
- ISBN
- 9780823230693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.71
€ 132.71
Hardback. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from itself and yet always also made of the same stuff. This title translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCV4. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230662
- ISBN
- 9780823230662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.68
€ 103.68
Hardback. Although many composers address the issue in their work, as yet there have been few attempts to think through the structure of religious music as we hear it. This book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. It also addresses the author's notion of hyper-religious music of sounds and colors. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGD; HRLB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230570
- ISBN
- 9780823230570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.69
€ 97.69
Paperback. Celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. This book features a semiology of the cultural practice that begins with the character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer's crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home. Translator(s): Wills, David. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 4 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230372
- ISBN
- 9780823230372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.97
€ 33.97
Hardback. Celebrates the particular communication of thoughts that takes place by means of the business of writing, producing, and selling books. This book features a semiology of the cultural practice that begins with the character of the writer's voice and culminates in a customer's crossing the bookstore threshold, package under arm, on the way home. Translator(s): Wills, David. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 193 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 185.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 4 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230365
- ISBN
- 9780823230365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.82
€ 90.82
Hardback. For two weeks in the fall of 1909, New York City threw itself the biggest party it had ever seen - attracting millions of people to a sprawling festival, from Brooklyn up the Hudson River to Albany. This event, the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, was meant to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the river bearing his name. Num Pages: 204 pages, 17 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 973.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230211
- ISBN
- 9780823230211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.64
€ 68.64
The Unpolitical. On the Radical Critique of Political Reason.
Cacciari, Massimo. Ed(S): Carrera, Alessandro
Hardback. The author is one of the leading public intellectuals in today's Italy, both as an outstanding philosopher and political thinker and as now three times (and currently) the mayor of Venice. This title offers a collection of essays on political topics provides the best introduction in English to his thought to date. Editor(s): Carrera, Alessandro. Translator(s): Verdicchio, Massimo. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230037
- ISBN
- 9780823230037
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.81
€ 108.81