Philosophy of religion Books
Fordham University Press An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge
Book SynopsisFirst published more than half a century ago, this book contains Simon's answers to the questions - what is the nature of knowledge? what kind of activity is it to know? and what is involved in the development of human knowledge?Trade Review"A must-have book for any student of epistemology and the foundations of knowledge. -The Thomist
£27.90
Fordham University Press St. Augustines Confessions The Odyssey of Soul
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anyone proposing another general field theory of the Confessions will have a major task being both as economical and as comprehensive as O'Connell is." -Church History
£27.90
Fordham University Press Soundings in St. Augustines Imagination
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£25.19
Fordham University Press Images of Conversion in St. Augustines
Book SynopsisAn exciting book...places the central sections of the Confessions in fresh perspectives.-Theological StudiesTrade Review"This book, with its careful blend of bold hypothesis and careful textual analysis, constitutes a fitting final monument to Fr. O'Connell's central position in modern attempts to understand Augustine's magnum opus." -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly An exciting book...places the central sections of the Confessions in fresh perspectives." -Theological Studies
£45.00
Fordham University Press Foresight and Knowledge
Book SynopsisSimon develops a philosophy of science from a realistic perspective, metaphysics in the exercise of its critical function.
£27.90
Fordham University Press Experience and God
Book SynopsisThe author of this book, arguing that religion has become an enigma for modern man, attempts to reconcile philosophy with religion. He shows that the prevailing attitude of indifference to religion in recent times can only be overcome through radical reflection and self-criticism.Trade Review"This well-reasoned defense of the role of metaphysics in the philosophy of religion furnishes a much-needed corrective. " -Religious Education
£25.19
Fordham University Press Plato on the Human Paradox
Book Synopsis"An introduction to philosophy for undergraduates through Socratic/Platonic eyes... one of the best short introductions to Plato available."-First ThingsTrade Review"An introduction to philosophy for undergraduates through Socratic/Platonic eyes... one of the best short introductions to Plato available." -First Things "O'Connell, the eminent author of several excellent studies of St. Augustine, offers an introduction to philosophy by surveying basic topics in Plato's Apology, Phaedo, Republic III-VI, Meno, and Symposium. The first two chapters explore Socrates' (i.e., early Plato's) moral psychology, ethical theory, and religion. Socrates' theory of virtue (arete) is presented by testing how it resembles or differs from various forms of deontology, teleology, and eudaimonism. While readable and informative, O'Connell's account of Socrates' theory of knowledge and personal religion ignores recent publications such as Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher, by Gregory Vlastos (CH, Nov'91), Plato's Socrates, by T.C. Brickhouse and N.D. Smith (CH, Jul'94), and Socrates and the State, by Richard Kraut (CH, Jul'84). Chapters 3-4 on the Republic discuss Plato's criticisms of poets and sophists and Socrates' rationalistic psychology, as well as present the theory of forms and the doctrine of recollection. Chapter 5 examines Platonic dualism in the Phaedo, and chapter 6 the relation between virtue, freedom, and happiness in the Phaedo and Republic. O'Connell reads Plato carefully; he is a clear expositor of basic issues in the dialogues. But for whom is the book intended? It is not likely to be used as an introductory textbook because it focuses almost exclusively on Plato (without primary texts). It will be of little interest to scholars, since O'Connell ignores Platonic scholarship after 1975. Regrettably, the book is not recommended for university or college libraries." -Choice
£27.90
Fordham University Press Head and Heart Affection Cognition Volition as
Book SynopsisThis work suggests that there is a triune of consciousness formed by the heart and mind, composed of a partnership between reason, will and affection. The author proves the existence of affectivity as a kind of consciousness inseparable from cognition and volition, and shows how affection works.Trade Review"This book joins a growing number that argue that emotions have been incorrectly accorded second-class status. These include Robert C. Solomon's The Passions (CH, Jan'77), Ronald DeSousa's The Rationality of Emotion (CH, Jun'88), Damasio's Descartes' Error (1994), W. George Turski's Toward a Rationality of Emotions (CH, Dec'94), and the popular Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman. Yet Tallon's book differs in both its method and content, moving to integrate consciousness under a single principle. In the first, and phenomenological, half of the book, Tallon (Marquette Univ.) argues that intentionality provides the single principle with which to integrate head and heart. Feeling is best understood as "affective intentionality." In the second, the hermeneutical half, Tallon interprets the phenomenon and proposes a theory to account for it. The principle of affective intentionality makes possible his thesis that cognition (the head), affectivity (the heart), and volition (the will) together form a "triune consciousness." Not only does affectivity cooperate with cognition, together they offer optimal human performance. He uses for support a variety of sources, mostly from the Continental tradition of phenomenology and existentialism, such as Sartre, Ricoeur, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty." -Choice
£27.90
Fordham University Press Knowing OtherWise Philosophy at the Threshold of
Book Synopsis"... remarkably accessible ... indispensable for Christians who perceive a second, more positive postmodernism."-Third WayTrade Review"... remarkably accessible ... indispensable for Christians who perceive a second, more positive postmodernism." -Third Way
£25.19
Fordham University Press Reflection Revisited Jurgen Habermas Discursive
Book SynopsisReflection Revisited examines Habermas's own development of the theory of emancipative reflection and analyzes how he applies reflection to the problems of ethics and personal identity development.
£25.19
Fordham University Press Suspicion and Faith
Book SynopsisThis work argues that the appropriate religious response to suspicion of its beliefs is not to try to refute or deflect them, but rather to acknowledge their force in a process of self-examination.Trade Review"An illuminating and powerful reading of three of the most important contemporary professedly antireligious thinkers... stinging critiques of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche." -- -C. Stephen Evans Society of Christian Philosophers
£73.80
Fordham University Press Suspicion and Faith
Book SynopsisMarx, Nietzche, and Freud are among the most influential of modern atheists. The distinctive feature of their challenge to theistic and specifically Christian belief is expressed by Paul Ricoeur when he calls them the masters of suspicion. While skepticism directs its critique to the truth or evidential basis of belief, suspicion asks two different, intimately intertwined questions: what are the motives that lead to this belief? and what function does it play, what work does it do for the individuals and communities that adopt it.What suspicion suspects is that the survival value of religious beliefs depends on satisfying desires and interests that the believing soul and the believing community are not eager to acknowledge because they violate the values they profess, as when, for example, talk about justice is a mask for deep-seated resentment and the desire for revenge. For this reason, the hermeneutics of suspicion is a theory, or group of theories, of self-deception: ideolTrade Review"An illuminating and powerful reading of three of the most important contemporary professedly antireligious thinkers... stinging critiques of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche." -- -C. Stephen Evans Society of Christian Philosophers
£27.90
ME - Fordham University Press Emmanuel Levinas The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics
Book SynopsisThis study of the contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas compares his thought with that of his contemporaries, most notably Jacques Derrida and Husserl. Included is a discussion of Levinas's relation to Judaism, such as his use of literature from the Torah and other religious writings.Trade Review"Wyschogrod focuses upon the unique and innovative aspects of Levinas, [his] attempts to base metaphysics on ethics rather than the traditional subordination of ethical theories to preconceived metaphysics." -The Modern Schoolman
£66.60
Fordham University Press Emmanuel Levinas The Problem of Ethical
Book SynopsisThis study of the contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas compares his thought with that of his contemporaries, most notably Jacques Derrida and Husserl. Included is a discussion of Levinas's relation to Judaism, such as his use of literature from the Torah and other religious writings.Trade Review"Wyschogrod focuses upon the unique and innovative aspects of Levinas, [his] attempts to base metaphysics on ethics rather than the traditional subordination of ethical theories to preconceived metaphysics." -The Modern Schoolman
£27.90
ME - Fordham University Press The Question of Christian Philosophy Today
Book SynopsisBased on papers delivered at a conference, this volume probes different issues confronting Christian philosophy at the brink of the 21st century. Together with excerpts from the question and answer session, each paper and the concluding round table discussion are presented in distinct sections.
£71.10
Fordham University Press The Question of Christian Philosophy Today
Book SynopsisBased on papers delivered at a conference, this volume probes different issues confronting Christian philosophy at the brink of the 21st century. Together with excerpts from the question and answer session, each paper and the concluding round table discussion are presented in distinct sections.
£27.90
ME - Fordham University Press Journeys to Selfhood Hegel and Kierkegaard
Book SynopsisEstablishing a creative dialogue between Hegel and Kierkegaard, Taylor charts the historical background of philosophy.Trade Review"Arguably, among the major events of late-18th-century and early-19th-century contributions to Western philosophy are the publication of Hegel's metaphysical idealism and the import it had for his understanding of Christian theology, and Kierkegaard's critical response to Hegel's theology. Taylor (philosophy, Fordham Univ.) carefully records and analyzes both Hegel's and Kierkegaard's work. Taylor's work on this project itself constitutes a significant supplement to Hegel's and Kierkegaard's project and also to modern philosophy: Taylor clearly presents Hegel's rationalistic methodology and his resulting metaphysical idealism, as well as Kierkegaard's important creative contributions to theology and spirituality. The last three chapters treat the concept of selfhood and its development; they constitute a significant contribution to these currently very much studied areas. This volume is suitable for faculty; students, both graduates and undergraduates; and general readers. Highly recommended." -Choice
£66.60
Fordham University Press Journeys to Selfhood
Book SynopsisEstablishing a creative dialogue between Hegel and Kierkegaard, Taylor charts the historical background of philosophy.Trade Review"Arguably, among the major events of late-18th-century and early-19th-century contributions to Western philosophy are the publication of Hegel's metaphysical idealism and the import it had for his understanding of Christian theology, and Kierkegaard's critical response to Hegel's theology. Taylor (philosophy, Fordham Univ.) carefully records and analyzes both Hegel's and Kierkegaard's work. Taylor's work on this project itself constitutes a significant supplement to Hegel's and Kierkegaard's project and also to modern philosophy: Taylor clearly presents Hegel's rationalistic methodology and his resulting metaphysical idealism, as well as Kierkegaard's important creative contributions to theology and spirituality. The last three chapters treat the concept of selfhood and its development; they constitute a significant contribution to these currently very much studied areas. This volume is suitable for faculty; students, both graduates and undergraduates; and general readers. Highly recommended." -Choice
£32.40
Fordham University Press A Critique of Moral Knowledge
Book SynopsisAn English version of a work first published in 1934. It addresses a number of fundamental problems in moral knowledge, such as: how moral knowledge differs from other practical knowledge; the controlled range of meanings of moral knowledge; and whether politics is part of moral philosophy.
£25.19
Fordham University Press Freedom and Community
Book Synopsis"As political theorists try to discern the distinguishing features of democratic political order... they can profit from the thoughtful, theoretically sophisticated formulations of Simon."-American Political Science ReviewTrade Review"As political theorists try to discern the distinguishing features of democratic political order... they can profit from the thoughtful, theoretically sophisticated formulations of Simon." -American Political Science Review
£27.90
Fordham University Press Is Nothing Sacred The NonRealist Philosophy of
Book SynopsisDon Cupitt is best known for the "non-realistic" doctrine of God, which he first put forward in 1980. This is a collection of his essays written over 20 years, that show him developing his distinctive theology before a variety of audiences.Trade Review"During a time in which troubling fundamentalisms and questionable orthodoxies pose growing threats, Don Cupitt's neo-realist philosophy of religion' provides a much-needed critical perspective. Writing in an accessible style, Cupitt provides valuable analyses of a wide range of pressing theoretical and practical issues." -- -Mark C. Taylor Williams College
£49.50
Fordham University Press Rethinking Philosophy of Religion Approaches
Book SynopsisFeatures the essays that reconceive the place of religion for critical thought following the 'turn to religion' in Continental philosophy, framing issues for exploration, and including questions of justice, anxiety, and evil; the sublime, and of the soul haunting genetics; and, how reason may be reshaped.Trade Review"... is a quite scholarly, informed and informative collection of erudite essays ..." -Wisconsin Bookwatch
£40.50
Fordham University Press A Philosophy of Hope
Book SynopsisJosef Pieper was one of the first modern philosophers to explore the idea of hope, and Schumacher discusses his development alongside contributions by Sartre, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger, Bloch and other thinkers and explores such themes as dignity, ethics, the good and the just.Trade Review"The book is filled with instructive and interesting detailed analyses of the many facets of hope." -The Review of Metaphysics
£65.70
ME - Fordham University Press Between Chora and the Good Metaphors
Book SynopsisBigger's larger goal is to align the primacy of the Good in Plato and Christian Neoplatonism with the creator God of Genesis and the God of love in the New Testament.
£71.10
ME - Fordham University Press Is There a Sabbath for Thought Between Religion
Book SynopsisThis book dwells on elemental experiences that keep the soul alive to the enigma of the divine. It pursues what is intimate yet universal: sleep, reverence, hatred and love, peace and war. It looks at religion with an open mind, asking how philosophy might stand up to some of the questions posed to it by religion, not just vice versa.
£35.10
Fordham University Press Experience and the Absolute
Book SynopsisDoes the philosophy of Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human.Trade Review"This is a difficult but worthwhile work on the boundary between phenomenology and theological reflection." -Religious Studies Review "Jean-Yves Lacoste's Experience and the Absolute elaborates what many have wanted for a very long time: a phenomenology of the liturgy. What is it to exist liturgically? Does the place of prayer matter? How does prayer ground ethics? These questions are posed and answered with exemplary rigor. Lacoste's critique of "experience" in theology and his profound analyses of being "face-to-face with God" are essential reading. Here is a major work by a theologian of remarkable subtlety and exceptional intellectual force." -- -Kevin Hart The University of Notre Dame
£31.50
ME - Fordham University Press Phenomenology Wide Open After the French Debate
Book SynopsisThis book follows up the developments inphenomenology discussed in Phenomenology andthe Theological Turn: The French Debate, attempting toestablish what potentialities in the phenomenologicalmethod exist at present.
£59.40
ME - Fordham University Press Givenness and God Questions of JeanLuc Marion
Book Synopsis"After the subject" and beyond Heideggerian ontology there is the sheer givenness of phenomena without condition. In theology, this liberation means rethinking God in terms of phenomena such as love, gift, and excess. Includes an essay by Marion, "The Reason of the Gift," and a dialogue between Marion and Richard Kearney.
£74.70
Fordham University Press The Phenomenology of Prayer
Book SynopsisConsiders the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a phenomenological point of view.Trade Review"This collection of seventeen papers deals with Christian and Jewish prayer from a philosophical perspective..." -International Review of Biblical Studies "The volume is effective, no doubt, because the analysis of prayer flows at least, in part, out of the practices of prayer; in which case what we have here is not just an intracontinental philosophical discussion but, unexpectedly and pleasantly so, an ecumenical forum of prayerful performances." -Religious Studies Review
£27.90
Fordham University Press The Experience of God A Postmodern Response
Book SynopsisOn 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.
£31.50
Fordham University Press Crossover Queries
Book SynopsisExploring 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.Trade Review"These studies...remind the scholar of religion that we do violence to religion if we think that we can domesticate it in some closed system or reductionistic mode of explanation." -Journal of Ecumenical Studies "Wyschogrod gathers together 32 philosophical essays produced over two decades, revealing the range of her thinking." -SciTech Book News " ... demonstrates the impressively wide-ranging and unflinchingly engaged work of Edith Wyschogrod." -Theology, Ethics and Philosophy "Crossover Queries brings together important essays on a remarkable range of topics by one of our most insightful cultural critics. Commenting on philosophical and theological issues that have shaped the recent past as well as scientific and technological questions that will preoccupy us in the near future, Wyschogrod consistently alerts us to the urgency of problems whose importance few recognize. To avoid the challenge these essays pose is to avoid responsibility for a future that appears to be increasingly fragile." -- -Mark C. Taylor Columbia University
£35.10
Fordham University Press Interstices of the Sublime
Book SynopsisThe sublime refers to a conflict of the Kantian faculties of reason and imagination, and involves the attempt to represent what is intrinsically unrepresentable. Through topics such as sublimation, schizophrenia, God, and creation ex nihilo, this book contributes to a form of radical theological thinking that is involved in the world.Trade Review"... [A] high quality and novel contribution." -Reviews in Religion and Theology "Draws on psychoanalytic theory and Continental philosophy to develop a radical postmodern theology." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Crockett's book is much more than an intervention into contemporary theological debates: it is an intervention that will change the very terms of these debates... It articulates a unique position that can only adequately be named Christian materialism. Crockett deploys the emancipatory core of Christianity that sustains every authentic radical politics." -- -Slavoj Zizek University of Ljubljana "An interesting topic, this book would be worth reading along with Twain's 'Autobiography,' Twain's final attempt to reveal his dark side." -Santa Cruz Sentinel
£27.90
ME - Fordham University Press On Love
Book SynopsisContributes 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.Trade Review"A tour de force in Islamic theology." -- -Sachiko Murata University at Stoneybrook, State University of New York "An expression of prayerful piety that draws uponan ontology of divine love and its centrality to the human condition." -- -Keith Doubt Wittenberg University "A mystical text, one that could take its place alongside the great mystical treatises of Islamic spirituality." -- -Maria Lichtmann Appalachian State University "A beautiful work, a profound meditation on love, will and knowledge that gives the reader an understanding of that idea of unity, or tawhid...A necessary reading to all who deny the role of love in Islamic thought." LOOK UP DIACRITICAL MARKS FOR TWAHID. -- -Adam Seligman Boston University "Beautifully written and skillfully translated, it allows for a fresh understanding of the inner, mystical aspects of the Islamic tradition in the words of a present-day Sufi Muslim." -Choice "A rare and important contribution to the field of Islamic studies, philosophy, and comparative religion." -- -Barry McDonald former Managing Director and Senior Editor, World Wisdom Books. "Focuses on Sufism in a study of love in the Muslim theological tradition; draws parallels with Christian mysticism." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "...considers the relationships between love and knowledge multiplicity, and unity, heart and intellect." -Publishers Weekly
£32.40
Fordham University Press The Exorbitant Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and
Book SynopsisA collection seeks to examine exactly what Levinas' writings mean for both Jews and Christians. It takes a snapshot of the state of Jewish-Christian dialogue, using Levinas as the rationale for the discussion. It represents three generations of Levinas scholars.Trade Review"... The individual essays in this volume are most engaging and well balanced, advancing provocative readings of Levinas as a philosopher; as a philosopher or religion; as a Jewish philosopher; and as a contemporary thinker highly relevant to discussions about modern and postmodern Christian thought." -H-Net Reviews "A very distinguished collection of scholars." -- -Michael Morgan Indiana University "A valuable contribution from which not only philosophers, but also theologians and scholars in Jewish, Catholic, and religious studies can learn much." -- -Adriaan T. Peperzak Loyola University, Chicago "A first-rate collection of essays on Emmanuel Levinas." -- -Claire Katz Texas A & M University
£74.70
Fordham University Press The Exorbitant Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and
Book SynopsisA collection seeks to examine exactly what Levinas' writings mean for both Jews and Christians. It takes a snapshot of the state of Jewish-Christian dialogue, using Levinas as the rationale for the discussion. It represents three generations of Levinas scholars.Trade Review"... The individual essays in this volume are most engaging and well balanced, advancing provocative readings of Levinas as a philosopher; as a philosopher or religion; as a Jewish philosopher; and as a contemporary thinker highly relevant to discussions about modern and postmodern Christian thought." -H-Net Reviews "A very distinguished collection of scholars." -- -Michael Morgan Indiana University "A valuable contribution from which not only philosophers, but also theologians and scholars in Jewish, Catholic, and religious studies can learn much." -- -Adriaan T. Peperzak Loyola University, Chicago "A first-rate collection of essays on Emmanuel Levinas." -- -Claire Katz Texas A & M University
£31.50
Fordham University Press The Reinvention of Religious Music
Book SynopsisOn the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground.Trade Review"Labeled "philosophy" by the publisher, this book contains neither musical examples (either in score or CD form) nor an index, but it does offer 40 pages of notes and an extensive bibliography that includes Augustine, Eduard Hanslick, Heidegger, Kant, and Kierkegaard. The writings of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Jean-Luc Marion serve as points of departure and scrutiny. Positing that listening to Messiaen's music requires more than aesthetics, theology, musicology, or theory, musicologist Sander van Maas investigates whether the "musical experience of the work of Messiaen merely results from ingenious rhetorical techniques" or whether there is something more. Is the music, as Messiaen himself believed, a "breakthrough toward the beyond" (i.e., an inner "dazzlement" or religious experience)? Or, in the contrary view, is this "breakthrough" a nonreligious "adoration of music"? According to the author, Messiaen "situates the listener at once inside and outside faith." Not meant for casual reading, the book includes sentences such as "Thinking about the phenomenon in terms of objectivity mystifies the original phenomenality of the phenomenon." Those who do embark on the book will likely find Messiaen's The Technique of My Musical Language (Eng. tr., 1956) and a CD of "La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jesus-Christ" useful aids. Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers, faculty, professionals." -Choice "A penetrating and thought-provoking exploration of what might be entailed by Messiaen's musical 'breakthrough to the beyond'. The Reinvention of Religious Music provides us with a wealth of fresh and original perspectives on this complex, endlessly fascinating musician." -- -Jeremy Begbie Duke University "In his eloquent and detailed study, van Maas discusses the theological meaning of Messiaen's music and the ways in which this unique sound world seeks to configure and even evangelize Messiaen's Christian thought. Maas presents an absorbing and provocative insight into Messiaen's faith in music that will enhance appreciation of this often misunderstood composer and his work." -- -Andrew Shenton Boston University "If the idea that religious music is a thing of the past helps you sleep better, Sander van Maas' provocative book should wake you up. Did you ever think that an ear could be circumcised? From the Bible to Messiaen and Derrida, he radically rethinks the relationships between ear and flesh." -- -Peter Szendy Universite de Paris X Nanterre "Examines the religious dimension of this composer's music." -Publishers Weekly
£25.19
Fordham University Press Words of Life
Book SynopsisAccuses 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.Trade Review"A solid and refreshing contribution to the growing literature in continental philosophy, this volume points scholars and students to the 'next wave' in phenomenology of religion." -- -James K.A. Smith Calvin College "Cutting edge research in the area of phenomenology and theology." -- -Richard Kearney Boston College "... an accurate and complex image of the most important sectors of the recent phenomenological research." -- -Sergiu Sava Al.I Cuza University of Iasi "... Necessary reading for anyone interested in current themes in French phenomenology and developments of key phenomenologists, as well as the burgeoning study of phenomenology of religion." -Religious Studies Review
£999.99
Fordham University Press Apophatic Bodies
Book SynopsisPursues the unlikely conjunction of apophasis and the body, not for the cachet of the 'cutting edge' but rather out of an ethical passion for the integrity of all creaturely bodies as they are caught up in various ideological mechanisms - religious, theological, political, economic - that threaten their dignity and material well-being.Trade Review"This volume is a luminescent contribution to the fields of theology and philosophy, taking up from a variety of disciplinary positions the ancient little problem of "the body" and its stubborn escapes from-and creative contributions to-theological discourse. These essays clearly represent scholarly exchange even as each can stand alone; they have been masterfully edited into a work that, taken as a whole, give us at last a non-reductive mode of thinking toward embodiment. " -- -Laurel C. Schneider Chicago Theological Seminary "Deepens and broadens the rediscovery of apophatic theology that is currently occuring in various fields of study." -- -Marion Grau Church Divinity School of the Pacific "Takes the current discussions about negative or apophatic theology to the next level by crossing apophaticism with the theme of material bodies, and the result is a powerful and important set of cutting-edge theoretical essays." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas
£40.50
Fordham University Press Philosophy and the Jewish Question
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.Trade ReviewThis study testifies to the renewed interest in Franz Rosenzweig's theological work...Recommended.---—S.T. Katz, Boston University“A bold and timely examination of the project of Jewish Modernity and modern Jewish thought, this study signals an important move to contextualize Mendelssohn’s late 18th-century Enlightenment thought and Rosenzweig’s early 20th-century philosophy as critical moments of a theoretical trajectory that highlights the larger philosophical agenda their thought advances." ---—Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto“Illuminates Rosenzweig’s work in detail in relation to Moses Mendelssohn, F. H. Jacobi, Karl Reinhold, the early Hegel, Hannah Arendt, and Stanley Cavell. A fascinating and informative read." ---—Jeffrey Librett, University of Oregon
£59.40
Fordham University Press Powers
Book SynopsisDealing 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.Trade Review"An inspired guide for understanding the comeback of religion in a world that appeared to be secularizing. This seminal mix of texts on different parts of the world critically addresses both the often all too easy suppositions that made ever further secularization seem inevitable and the dangers of equally simplistic analysis of the revival of religion as an effect of changing power relations. The various authors show the way for increasingly sophisticated interpretations of the complex links between religion and power." -- -Peter Geschiere University of Amsterdam "Essays on power as a central aspect of religion, including its intersections with politics, art, and other realms; topics include Catholicism and secessionist warfare in Papua New Guinea." -The Chronicle of Higher Education
£74.70
Fordham University Press Powers
Book SynopsisDealing 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.Trade Review"An inspired guide for understanding the comeback of religion in a world that appeared to be secularizing. This seminal mix of texts on different parts of the world critically addresses both the often all too easy suppositions that made ever further secularization seem inevitable and the dangers of equally simplistic analysis of the revival of religion as an effect of changing power relations. The various authors show the way for increasingly sophisticated interpretations of the complex links between religion and power." -- -Peter Geschiere University of Amsterdam "Essays on power as a central aspect of religion, including its intersections with politics, art, and other realms; topics include Catholicism and secessionist warfare in Papua New Guinea." -The Chronicle of Higher Education
£28.80
Fordham University Press A Passion for the Possible Thinking with Paul
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is the first collection of essays to self-consciously address itself retrospectively to Paul Ricoeur's philosophical oeuvre." -- -W. David Hall Centre College "Many scholars from a variety of disciplines will find this an interesting and enlightening text. It not only broadens our understanding of Ricoeur's work but also builds on it, following his exemplary model on how to do philosophy." -- -Christina Gschwandtner University of Scranton
£71.10
Fordham University Press A Passion for the Possible Thinking with Paul
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is the first collection of essays to self-consciously address itself retrospectively to Paul Ricoeur's philosophical oeuvre." -- -W. David Hall Centre College "Many scholars from a variety of disciplines will find this an interesting and enlightening text. It not only broadens our understanding of Ricoeur's work but also builds on it, following his exemplary model on how to do philosophy." -- -Christina Gschwandtner University of Scranton
£25.19
Fordham University Press Retreating Religion Deconstructing Christianity
Book SynopsisDeals with the history that consists in a paradoxical tendency to contest one's own foundations - whether God, truth, origin, humanity, or rationality - as well as to found itself on the void of this contestation. This book includes discussion with Nancy himself, who contributes a substantial Preamble and a concluding dialogue with volume editors.Trade Review"Features some of Nancy's clearest, most succinct formulations of his approach to the question of Christianity. A comprehensive and splendidly timely account of a debate of immense importance." -- -Martin Crowley Queens' College
£999.99
Fordham University Press The Metamorphosis of Finitude
Book SynopsisReads resurrection in the context of contemporary philosophy, notably Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and DeleuzeTrade Review"Emmanuel Falque is an important new voice in Continental philosophy of religion. His study of human finitude and corporeality in light of questions of birth and resurrection represents one of the finest examples of the vigorous contemporary conversation between Continental philosophy and theology." -- -Christina M. Gschwandtner University of Scranton
£57.60
Fordham University Press Things
Book SynopsisAddressing the relation between religion and things, which has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, the guiding idea of this volume is that religion necessarily requires some kind of incarnation. Exploring the role and place of sacred artifacts, images, bodily fluids, sites and technologies in different locations and religious traditions, this volume re-materializes the study of religion.Trade Review"Things gathers up a series of lively and provocative essays. Challenging received understandings of religion as primarily about beliefs (in spiritual beings) as historically derived and impossible to sustain, it draws attention to the centrality of the material in religious practices and debates about the world. This volume deserves a place on the shelf of anyone interested in either religion or materiality-or both." -- -Margaret Weiner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Things is an essential archive for the study of religious materiality and the material study of religion." -- -David Chidester author of Wild Religion: Tracking the Sacred in South Africa "A highly spirited and robust materialization of a significant trend in the study of religion. The articles in this remarkably coherent collection speak back to iconoclasm and the ideal or ideology of immateriality as found explicitly in certain practitioners of religion and implicitly in its scholarship. They illustrate the various ways in which material objects function as signs, powers, and mediations, and examine as well the intellectual debates and theological disputations about their functions and effects to which things inevitably give rise." -- -Michael Lambek author of The Weight of the Past "... this volume is an invaluable contribution to religious and material culture studies, broadening the scope of both fields by introducing new questions in old contexts, and investing agency in people and spirit in things." -- -Gabrielle A. Berlinger -Museum Anthropology Review
£31.50
Fordham University Press On Becoming God Late Medieval Mysticism and the
Book SynopsisAn account of modern ideas of selfhood that juxtaposes the relation between confessor and woman mystic in late medieval texts with examples from the early history of psychoanalysis (Freud/Breuer) to show the importance of taking into account human connectedness, gender and religious practices when studying the history of modern identity.Trade Review"It stands on its own as a new and essential contribution both to the interpretation of the significance of medieval mysticism and to question of identity-formation." -- -Niklaus Largier University of California, Berkeley "The book is about surprising 'ourselves out of our preconceptions' - so as to be able to revise our assumptions about who we are. But the book also demonstrates what it is about: in reading the book we are as readers offered opportunities to let ourselves be surprised." -- -Arne Gron University of Copenhagen "This engaging, challenging book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the theme of deification in Western thought, a long-neglected topic that nevertheless remains central to Christian theology." -Ephemerides Theolicae Lovanienses
£999.99
ME - Fordham University Press Miracle and Machine Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion Science and the Media
Book SynopsisMiracle and Machine is an introduction to the work of Jacques Derrida by means of a detailed reading of his 1994-5 essay “Faith and Knowledge,” Derrida’s most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms it is taking today through science and the media.Trade Review"With Miracle and Machine, Naas provides us with an extremely rich and highly illuminating reading of Derrida's complex work that permits us to gauge the stakes of this absolutely unique text in Derrida's corpus." -Research in Phenomenology "This book is overflowing with insights and broad perspectives at the same time that it offers an authoritative summation, overview, and progress report on Jacques Derrida's considerable work on religion and its impact on the contemporary world." -- -Henry Sussman Yale University
£100.80
