Author: Jan Mieszkowski
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: kant, althusser, economy, political, imagination, aesthetics, labors
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2006-04-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0823225879
ISBN-13: 9780823225873

Challenging prevailing assumptions about the relationship between language and politics, this book offers a compelling new account of aesthetic and economic thought since the eighteenth century. Mieszkowski explores the doctrines of productivity and interest in Romanticism and classical political economy, arguing that the critical force of any historical model of literature depends on its understanding of the distinction between intellectual and material labor. This provocative contribution to contemporary debates about culture and ideology will be important for scholars of literature, history

Author: Georges Canguilhem
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: life, knowledge
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2008-12-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0823229254
ISBN-13: 9780823229253

As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, François Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science and French philosophy more generally. In Knowledge of Life, a book that spans twenty years of his essays and lectures, Canguilhem offers a series of epistemological histories that seek to establish and clarify the stakes, ambiguities, and emergence of philosophical and biological concepts that defined the rise of modern biology. How do transformations in biology and modern medicine shape conceptio

Author: Jean Leclercq
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: monastic, culture, study, god, learning, desire, love
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0823204073
ISBN-13: 9780823204076

The Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the Institute of Monastic Studies at Sant’Anselmo in Rome during the winter of 1955-56.

Author: Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: philosophy, continental, perspectives, revealed, visible
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0823228843
ISBN-13: 9780823228843

In The Visible and the Revealed, Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections, they are particularly useful for understanding the progression of Marion’s thought on such topics as the saturated phenomenon and the possibility of something like "Christian Philosophy." The book contains his seminal pieces on the saturated phenomenon and on the gift, although the essays also explore more recent developments of his though

Author: Cabell Phillips
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: chronicle, american, life, times, york, blitz, new, crash
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0823220001
ISBN-13: 9780823220007

In unforgettable words and images, Cabell Phillips takes the reader from the crash of the stock market to the crash of bombs in Poland. The journey was a monumental one for Americans--a time of bitterness and despair, of failure and hunger and want, but also of rebirth. The New Deal was part of a social revolution, a recreation of the American experiment. In popular culture, too, the decade beginning with 1929 saw a new flowering in music, in radio, and in the movies--now equipped with sound tracks. In baseball, America’s pastime, the decade saw the exit of the mighty Babe and the coming

Author: Stephen Ross
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: language, limits
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0823215180
ISBN-13: 9780823215188

The Limits of Language concerns itself with the nature and limits of language at a time when our understanding of the world and of ourselves is intimately related to what we understand of language.

Author: Bruce Reichenbach
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Keywords: god, evil
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1982-01-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0823210812
ISBN-13: 9780823210817

". . . a comprehensive review and criticism of the major deductive and inductive arguments against theism [and] a morally sufficient reason for the presence of evil."-Religious Studies Review