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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
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€ 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
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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
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€ 47.99€ 42.94
€ 47.99
€ 42.94
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
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€ 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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823230679
- ISBN
- 9780823230679
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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
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 89.32
€ 89.32
Hardback. Drawing together two critical moments in the history of European Jewry - its entrance as a participant in the Enlightenment project of religious and political reform and its involvement in the traumatic upheavals brought on by the Great War - this book offers a reappraisal of the intersection of culture, politics, and theology in the modern world. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 36. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231294
- ISBN
- 9780823231294
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Condition: New
€ 87.13
€ 87.13
Hardback. Dealing with the nexus of religion and power, this volume radically undermines the idea that the political relevance of religion is a thing of the past. Editor(s): ter Borg, Meerten B. Series: The Future of the Religious Past. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 184 x 25. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823231560
- ISBN
- 9780823231560
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Condition: New
€ 109.12
€ 109.12
Paperback. Dealing with the nexus of religion and power, this volume radically undermines the idea that the political relevance of religion is a thing of the past. It also includes essays that offer broad analyses of the nature of religion and power in their modes of emergence today and specific case studies from anthropology, sociology, and the arts. Editor(s): ter Borg, Meerten B. Series: The Future of the Religious Past. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HRAB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 183 x 20. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823231577
- ISBN
- 9780823231577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.78
€ 42.99
€ 38.78
Hardback. Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau - in March 1865. Upon its creation this temporary federal agency assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the war-torn South. Series: Reconstructing America. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 539.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232116
- ISBN
- 9780823232116
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Condition: New
€ 113.86
€ 113.86
Hardback. Editor(s): Treanor, Brian. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 483.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232925
- ISBN
- 9780823232925
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Condition: New
€ 103.67
€ 103.67
Paperback. Editor(s): Treanor, Brian. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232932
- ISBN
- 9780823232932
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.32
€ 36.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. The Doppelganger presents literature as the double of philosophy. This title studies the Doppelganger's influence on philosophical thought. It shows how the Doppelganger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232994
- ISBN
- 9780823232994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.52
€ 42.99
€ 38.52
Hardback. Editor(s): Boryczka, Jocelyn M. Num Pages: 380 pages, 2 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JM; HRCC7; JFFK; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823233311
- ISBN
- 9780823233311
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Condition: New
€ 96.62
€ 96.62
paperback. "Originally published in 1887 by Harper & Brothers, New York"--T.p. verso. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 491.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823233854
- ISBN
- 9780823233854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.09
€ 34.99
€ 32.09
Hardback. Series: Empire State Editions. Num Pages: 220 pages, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823234196
- ISBN
- 9780823234196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.32
€ 83.32
Hardback. Translator(s): Clift, Sarah. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 273.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823234257
- ISBN
- 9780823234257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31