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The Fordham University Press is a publishing house, a division of Fordham University
, that publishes primarily in the humanities
and the social sciences
. Fordham University Press was established in 1907 and is headquartered in the Canisius Hall building in the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University in the Bronx
, New York
.
It has been a member of the Association of American University Presses
(AAUP) since 1938 and was a founding charter member of the Association of Jesuit University Presses
(AJUP). The press was established "not only to represent and uphold the values and traditions of the University itself, but also to further those values and traditions through the dissemination of scholarly research and ideas".http://www.fordhampress.com/aboutus.html
Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola by John C. Olin http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823214808
Deconstruction in a Nutshell by John D. Caputo http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823217540
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith Butler http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823225033
Love of Learning and Desire for God by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B. http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823204076
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free by Alexander Jefferson http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823223664
Under the Sidewalks of New York by Brian Cudahy http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?session=f91604c04999cebb0f511c117e3e6676&cat=1&id=9780823216185
Byzantine Theology by John Meyendorff http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823209675
Irish Brigade and Its Campaign by David P. Conyngham http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823215782
An Aquinas Reader Edited by Mary T. Clark http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823220298
The Street Book by Henry Moscow http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823212750
The Search for Major Plagge by Michael Good http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823224401
The Forms of Living series seeks to provide an outlet for theoretically and methodologically rigorous writing theorized and articulated through various disciplines, frames, and attempts. Thus the series promotes translations of important work in languages other than English, organizes edited volumes serving as introductions to scholars not well known to Anglo-American audiences, and delivers original and provocative writing from renown scholars as well as first-time authors. By connecting works that may not otherwise be read alongside one another, Forms of Living eavesdrops on conversations already occurring between scholars, and begins new conversations on what is at stake between knowledge and life.
The Just Ideas series offers both scholarly monographs and more widely accessible books that engage the reader with contemporary philosophical, social, and judicial topics. This series explores the multi-faceted relation between law and justice, illuminates the importance of continental philosophy in that exploration, and enriches our understanding of literary texts dealing with justice. To practically apply theory to the struggle for global justice, texts from this series engage the work of transformative constitutionalism in third-world and developed constitutional democracies, evaluate the role of international law and human rights, and critique social-scientific legal scholarship that restricts law to solely social facts.
The primary interest of this series is in methodological diversity and innovation. Its fields of inquiry include material, textual, and manuscript culture. The series offers original studies, translations, and multiauthor volumes, as well as source materials on late antique and medieval culture, with an openness to interdisciplinary methods and cross-cultural studies. Topical concentrations include religious studies, theology, race and gender studies, literary studies, and less-studied fields.
This series consists of books that seek to bring Orthodox Christianity into an engagement with contemporary forms of thought. Its goal is to promote (1) historical studies in Orthodox Christianity that are interdisciplinary, employ a variety of methods, and speak to contemporary issues; and (2) constructive theological arguments in conversation with patristic sources and that focus on contemporary questions ranging from the traditional theological and philosophical themes of God and human identity to cultural, political, economic, and ethical concerns. The books in the series will explore both the relevancy of Orthodox Christianity to contemporary challenges and the impact of contemporary modes of thought on Orthodox self-understandings.
Associate Editor, Alena Herklotz, Fordham University Law School
This series will feature new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Second World War. It is equally interested in monographs that explore the political, military, diplomatic, and economic dimensions of this war as well those that examine its social, cultural, intellectual, and gender history. A central focus of this series will to be on monographs analyzing the human dimension of this epic conflict. It seeks works that analyze the multitude of experiences faced not only by combatants, but also by civilians who lived in all the nations engaged in this war. A global war, this epic struggle left no society untouched. Thus, the series seeks works that explore the impact of this conflict not only on the United States, Europe, and Japan, but also on Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
This new five-press publishing collaboration—New York University Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press
, Temple University Press
, and the University of Virginia Press
—will confront the publishing crisis in literature and literary studies, where the annual number of univer¬sity press books has declined steeply in recent years, placing younger scholars at a disadvantage when writing their first books.
The American Literatures Initiative, which will launch in January, 2008, will be an innovative, entrepreneurial, cooperative effort to expand the number of books published in literary studies and increase audience reach by using common resources available to the five Presses through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each press will continue to acquire and develop titles according to its own needs and editorial criteria looking for high-quality first books by promising scholars, seeking out the best scholarly work about English-language literatures of Cen¬tral and North America and the Caribbean. http://www.americanliteratures.org/
The initiative has created a collaborative model that will offer scholars in a wide range of languages and literatures a shared and welcoming space for publishing excellent scholarship and at the same time addresses a transformative moment in the structure, purpose, and content of foreign language teaching and research.
We have crafted this initiative to respond to a negative—some would say a disastrous—trend: the dramatic reduction in publishing opportunities in foreign languages and literatures at a time when enrollments in foreign languages and interest in foreign cultures are greater than they have been in many years. Modern language departments, in which scholarship on linguistic cultural productions in languages other than English is primarily based, develop, preserve, and transmit the cultural knowledge and linguistic competence necessary for understanding other cultures. Moreover, since culture is inherently international, these departments have been the point at which many of the most important intellectual developments in recent decades, whatever their home discipline, have first entered the American academy. They house the scholars who can read these developments in their original languages and who can interpret the culture of their origin.http://www.modernlanguageinitiative.org/
Fordham University
Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...
, that publishes primarily in the humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
and the social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
. Fordham University Press was established in 1907 and is headquartered in the Canisius Hall building in the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University in the Bronx
The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
, New York
New York
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.
It has been a member of the Association of American University Presses
Association of American University Presses
The Association of American University Presses is an association of mostly, but not exclusively, North American university presses...
(AAUP) since 1938 and was a founding charter member of the Association of Jesuit University Presses
Association of Jesuit University Presses
The Association of Jesuit University Presses is an association of North American university presses which are members of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The AJUP is composed of eleven charter members....
(AJUP). The press was established "not only to represent and uphold the values and traditions of the University itself, but also to further those values and traditions through the dissemination of scholarly research and ideas".http://www.fordhampress.com/aboutus.html
Bestselling List
Greek: An Intensive Course by Hardy Hansen and Gerald Quinn http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823216635Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola by John C. Olin http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823214808
Deconstruction in a Nutshell by John D. Caputo http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823217540
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith Butler http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823225033
Love of Learning and Desire for God by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B. http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823204076
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free by Alexander Jefferson http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823223664
Under the Sidewalks of New York by Brian Cudahy http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?session=f91604c04999cebb0f511c117e3e6676&cat=1&id=9780823216185
Byzantine Theology by John Meyendorff http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823209675
Irish Brigade and Its Campaign by David P. Conyngham http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823215782
An Aquinas Reader Edited by Mary T. Clark http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823220298
The Street Book by Henry Moscow http://fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823212750
The Search for Major Plagge by Michael Good http://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823224401
American Philosophy
Edited by Douglas R Anderson, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Jude Jones, Fordham UniversityForms of Living
Edited by Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University, and Todd E. Meyers, Wayne State UniversityThe Forms of Living series seeks to provide an outlet for theoretically and methodologically rigorous writing theorized and articulated through various disciplines, frames, and attempts. Thus the series promotes translations of important work in languages other than English, organizes edited volumes serving as introductions to scholars not well known to Anglo-American audiences, and delivers original and provocative writing from renown scholars as well as first-time authors. By connecting works that may not otherwise be read alongside one another, Forms of Living eavesdrops on conversations already occurring between scholars, and begins new conversations on what is at stake between knowledge and life.
The Future of the Religious Past
Edited by Hent de Vries, The Johns Hopkins University and University of AmsterdamJust Ideas
Edited by Roger Berkowitz, Bard College, Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, and Kenneth Panfilio, Illinois State UniversityThe Just Ideas series offers both scholarly monographs and more widely accessible books that engage the reader with contemporary philosophical, social, and judicial topics. This series explores the multi-faceted relation between law and justice, illuminates the importance of continental philosophy in that exploration, and enriches our understanding of literary texts dealing with justice. To practically apply theory to the struggle for global justice, texts from this series engage the work of transformative constitutionalism in third-world and developed constitutional democracies, evaluate the role of international law and human rights, and critique social-scientific legal scholarship that restricts law to solely social facts.
The McGannon Center Everett C. Parker Book Series
Edited by Philip Napoli, Fordham UniversityMedieval Philosophy: Texts and Studies
Edited by Gyula Klima, Fordham UniversityThe primary interest of this series is in methodological diversity and innovation. Its fields of inquiry include material, textual, and manuscript culture. The series offers original studies, translations, and multiauthor volumes, as well as source materials on late antique and medieval culture, with an openness to interdisciplinary methods and cross-cultural studies. Topical concentrations include religious studies, theology, race and gender studies, literary studies, and less-studied fields.
Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology
Edited by Romanus Cessario, O.P, St. John's Seminary, and Joseph Koterski, S.J., Fordham UniversityOrthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
Edited by George Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou, (both Fordham University)This series consists of books that seek to bring Orthodox Christianity into an engagement with contemporary forms of thought. Its goal is to promote (1) historical studies in Orthodox Christianity that are interdisciplinary, employ a variety of methods, and speak to contemporary issues; and (2) constructive theological arguments in conversation with patristic sources and that focus on contemporary questions ranging from the traditional theological and philosophical themes of God and human identity to cultural, political, economic, and ethical concerns. The books in the series will explore both the relevancy of Orthodox Christianity to contemporary challenges and the impact of contemporary modes of thought on Orthodox self-understandings.
People and the Environment
Edited by Paolo Galizzi, Fordham University Law SchoolAssociate Editor, Alena Herklotz, Fordham University Law School
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Edited by John D. Caputo, Villanova University and Syracuse UniversityPoets Out Loud
Edited by Elisabeth Frost, Fordham University http://www.fordhampress.com/series.html?se=28World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension
Edited by G. Kurt Piehler, University of TennesseeThis series will feature new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Second World War. It is equally interested in monographs that explore the political, military, diplomatic, and economic dimensions of this war as well those that examine its social, cultural, intellectual, and gender history. A central focus of this series will to be on monographs analyzing the human dimension of this epic conflict. It seeks works that analyze the multitude of experiences faced not only by combatants, but also by civilians who lived in all the nations engaged in this war. A global war, this epic struggle left no society untouched. Thus, the series seeks works that explore the impact of this conflict not only on the United States, Europe, and Japan, but also on Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
The American Literatures Initiative
The American Literatures Initiative is a new collaborative book publishing program, supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to create new opportunities for publication in under-served and emerging areas of the humanities.This new five-press publishing collaboration—New York University Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in Piscataway, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.-History:...
, Temple University Press
Temple University Press
Temple University Press is a university press publishing house that is part of Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The press was founded in 1969....
, and the University of Virginia Press
University of Virginia Press
The University of Virginia Press , founded in 1963, is a university press that is part of the University of Virginia.-External links:*...
—will confront the publishing crisis in literature and literary studies, where the annual number of univer¬sity press books has declined steeply in recent years, placing younger scholars at a disadvantage when writing their first books.
The American Literatures Initiative, which will launch in January, 2008, will be an innovative, entrepreneurial, cooperative effort to expand the number of books published in literary studies and increase audience reach by using common resources available to the five Presses through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each press will continue to acquire and develop titles according to its own needs and editorial criteria looking for high-quality first books by promising scholars, seeking out the best scholarly work about English-language literatures of Cen¬tral and North America and the Caribbean. http://www.americanliteratures.org/
The Modern Language Initiative
The Modern Language Initiative publishes scholarship by first authors writing in English about linguistic cultural productions in languages other than English. This includes all types of literature, as well as other verbal productions such as rhetoric and film, in addition to performance, popular culture, and any other form that employs language.The initiative has created a collaborative model that will offer scholars in a wide range of languages and literatures a shared and welcoming space for publishing excellent scholarship and at the same time addresses a transformative moment in the structure, purpose, and content of foreign language teaching and research.
We have crafted this initiative to respond to a negative—some would say a disastrous—trend: the dramatic reduction in publishing opportunities in foreign languages and literatures at a time when enrollments in foreign languages and interest in foreign cultures are greater than they have been in many years. Modern language departments, in which scholarship on linguistic cultural productions in languages other than English is primarily based, develop, preserve, and transmit the cultural knowledge and linguistic competence necessary for understanding other cultures. Moreover, since culture is inherently international, these departments have been the point at which many of the most important intellectual developments in recent decades, whatever their home discipline, have first entered the American academy. They house the scholars who can read these developments in their original languages and who can interpret the culture of their origin.http://www.modernlanguageinitiative.org/