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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
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Condition: New
€ 60.06
€ 60.06
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228744
- ISBN
- 9780823228744
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€ 113.65
€ 113.65
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 546
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228621
- ISBN
- 9780823228621
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€ 73.83
€ 73.83
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228539
- ISBN
- 9780823228539
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€ 76.26
€ 76.26
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
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Condition: New
€ 101.47
€ 101.47
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.
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- 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€ 43.16
€ 47.99
€ 43.16
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823227518
- ISBN
- 9780823227518
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Condition: New
€ 56.20
€ 56.20
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
€ 118.74
€ 118.74
Paperback. Traces the trajectory of the author's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. This work addresses specific issues in American thought and culture. It constitutes a mosaic of his philosophy, showing its roots in an American conception of experience. Editor(s): Anderson, Douglas R. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 227 x 37. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226634
- ISBN
- 9780823226634
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.17
€ 51.99
€ 46.17
paperback. What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? Containing contributions from distinguished scholars from disciplines, such as: philosophy, political theory, anthropology, classics, and religious studies, this book seeks to address this question. Editor(s): Vries, Hent de. Num Pages: 800 pages, 15 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HPS; HRA; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 4531 x 5830 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1591.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823226450
- ISBN
- 9780823226450
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Condition: New
€ 79.34
€ 79.34
paperback. Exploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, this book brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers, Wyschogrod. It also analyzes the negations of biological research and cultural images of mechanized and robotic bodies. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 592 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 42. Weight in Grams: 906.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823226078
- ISBN
- 9780823226078
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€ 53.04
€ 53.04
Paperback. This book offers an alternative way of taking up the American Philosophical tradition as a way of doing philosophy and a way of life. Douglas Anderson explores the relationship between American philosophy and other features of American culture, including where in that culture thinking that could be called "philosophical" is to be found. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 461.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780823225514
- ISBN
- 9780823225514
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€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
paperback. Introducing the range of noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, this book focuses in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery. The author places Lacoue-Labarthe's achievements in the context of related philosophers, most importantly Nancy, Derrida, and Blanchot. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823225354
- ISBN
- 9780823225354
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.00
€ 46.99
€ 46.00
Paperback. On the one hand, it seems impossible to experience God. On the other hand, there have been mystics who have claimed to have encountered God. This collection seeks to explore the topic again, drawing insights from phenomenology, theology, literature, and feminism. It maintains a connection with concrete rather than abstract approaches to God. Editor(s): Hart, Kevin. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225194
- ISBN
- 9780823225194
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.76
€ 46.99
€ 41.76
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Begley, Ronald B. Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823224258
- ISBN
- 9780823224258
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Condition: New
€ 101.47
€ 101.47
Paperback. Explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, the author seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists. Num Pages: 792 pages. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 792
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224197
- ISBN
- 9780823224197
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 52.94
€ 53.48
€ 52.94
Paperback. Editor(s): Cuomo, Mario M. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780823223459
- ISBN
- 9780823223459
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 are among the most important statements in American political history, dramatic struggles over the issues that would tear apart the nation in the Civil War: the virtues of a republic and the evils of slavery. Editor(s): Holzer, Harold. Num Pages: 422 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823223428
- ISBN
- 9780823223428
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34
paperback. A collection of illuminating encounters with some of the most important philosophers of our age Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 388 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823223183
- ISBN
- 9780823223183
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.17
€ 46.99
€ 46.17
Paperback. Brian Cudahy offers a fascinating tribute to the world the subway created. Taking a fresh look at one of the marvels of the 20th century, Cudahy creates a vivid sense of this extraordinary achievement-how the city was transformed once New Yorkers started riding in a hole in the ground. Num Pages: 388 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBT; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823222933
- ISBN
- 9780823222933
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.34
€ 41.99
€ 37.34