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Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia by Gila Ashtor
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $48.74Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Award 2022 Lammy Finalist, LGBTQ Studies Can queer theory be erotophobic? This book proceeds from the perplexing observation that for all of its political agita,... -
Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $150.89Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to... -
Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology by Stephen D. Moore
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $177.98A turn to the animal is underway in the humanities, most obviously in such fields as philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. One important catalyst for this development... -
Experience and the Absolute: Disputed Questions on the Humanity of Man by Jean-Yves Lacoste
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $65.06Does the philosophy of Martin Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical... -
Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace by Steven A. Long
RRP: $149.10Booksplease Price: $131.78From speculative theology to the exegesis of Aquinas, to contemporary North American philosophy and Catholic social and ethical thought, to the thought of Benedict XVI, this work argues the crucial... -
Dante For the New Millennium by Teodolinda Barolini
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $63.76The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The... -
After God: Richard Kearney and the Religious Turn in Continental Philosophy by Dr. John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Booksplease Price: $112.37Who or what comes after God? In the wake of God, as the last fifty years of philosophy has shown, God comes back again, otherwise: Heidegger's last God, Levinas's God of Infinity, Derrida's and... -
Reconstruction in a Globalizing World by David Prior
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $48.74As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period's racial views, political... -
Greek: An Intensive Course, 2nd Revised Edition by Hardy Hansen
RRP: $96.60Booksplease Price: $89.57The first edition of this extremely popular two volume Greek text has been successfully adopted in many high schools and colleges; the organization and approach used by the authors, make it an... -
Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human by Deborah Christie
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.55The zombie is ubiquitous in popular culture: from comic books to video games, to internet applications and homemade films, zombies are all around us. Investigating the zombie from an... -
The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender by Anne Emmanuelle Berger
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.63More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar... -
Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline by Virginia Burrus
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.68What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and... -
In the World, Yet Not of the World: Social and Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew by Bartholomew
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $68.92Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew speaks to a contemporary world about, human rights, religious tolerance, international peace, environmental protection, and more. In the World, Yet Not of the World... -
The Book of Negroes: African Americans in Exile after the American Revolution by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.63Since publication of The Black Loyalist Directory in 1996, the primary component, The Book of Negroes, has become one of the most-cited of American Revolutionary primary sources. This new edition... -
Things: Religion and the Question of Materiality by Dick Houtman
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $66.74This volume addresses the relation between religion and things. That relation has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, privileging spirit above matter, belief above ritual and objects, meaning... -
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith P. Butler
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $123.14What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical... -
Impeachment of a President: Andrew Johnson, the Blacks, and Reconstruction by Hans L. Trefousse
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $60.17In Impeachment of a President, Hans L. Trefousse focuses on the causes of the failure to convict, the consequences of the acquittal, and the relationship of the impeachment to the ill success of... -
On Freud's Jewish Body: Mitigating Circumcisions by Jay Geller
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $65.06Through a symptomatic reading of Freud's corpus, from his letters to Fliess through the case of Little Hans to Moses and Montheism, this book demonstrates how "circumcision"-the fetishized signifier... -
The Synagogues of New York's Lower East Side: A Retrospective and Contemporary View, 2nd Edition by Gerard R. Wolfe
RRP: $117.60Booksplease Price: $106.37It has often been said that nowhere in the United States can one find a greater collection of magnificent and historic synagogues than on New York's Lower East Side. As the ultimate destination for... -
The Idol and Distance: Five Studies Jean-Luc Marion 9780823220786
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $65.06Marked sharply by its time and place (Paris in the 1970s), this early theological text by Jean-Luc Marion nevertheless maintains a strikingly deep resonance with his most recent, groundbreaking, and... -
On the Medieval Structure of Spirituality: Thomas Aquinas by Roger Haight
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.41If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225, as is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after producing the single most influential systematic theology of the Western Christian... -
The Politics of the Near: On the Edges of Protest in South Africa by Jerome Tournadre
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $184.49.Book InformationISBN 9780823299966Author Jerome TournadreFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent: Poems by Gregory Mahrer
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.08A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent charts a territory built of speculative histories, indeterminate landscapes, and mock narratives, all of them at the threshold linking exterior and interior... -
Palisades: The People's Park by Robert O Binnewies
RRP: $252.00Booksplease Price: $224.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823293704Author Robert O BinnewiesFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Fordham University... -
If Babel Had a Form: Translating Equivalence in the Twentieth-Century Transpacific by Tze-Yin Teo
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $161.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531500184Author Tze-Yin TeoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher... -
Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain by Brandon Bayne
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.63While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish... -
Spiritualities of Social Engagement: Walter Rauschenbusch and Dorothy Day by Roger Haight
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $15.41This volume considers two authors who represent different but complementary responses to social injustice and human degradation. The writings of Walter Rauschenbusch and Dorothy Day respond to an... -
Eros: Beyond the Death Drive by Rosaura Martinez Ruiz
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $133.41Eros considers a promise left unfulfilled in Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Rosaura Martinez Ruiz argues that when the pleasure principle comes into contact with the death drive (the... -
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond by Alvin Eng
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $99.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531500368Author Alvin EngFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher... -
Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire by Nathan K. Hensley
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.55Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how... -
Perspectives in a Pandemic by Kevin M Cahill
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.08Perspectives in a Pandemic is a series of enlightening essays written by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., providing a unique insight into the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cahill draws on his... -
Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic Structure of Truth: A Philosophical Investigation by David C. Schindler
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $140.55Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was one of the most prolific and influential theologians of the twentieth century. This book, the first English-language study of Balthasar, seeks to show the... -
Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and the Subject of Poetic Language: Toward a New Poetics of Dasein by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 9780823223619
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.55Heidegger's interpretations of the poetry of Hoelderlin are central to Heidegger's later philosophy and have determined the mainstream reception of Hoelderlin's poetry. Gosetti-Ferencei argues that... -
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by J. W. Ernst 9780823215591
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $70.67Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between... -
The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition by Michael Good 9780823224418
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $48.74When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero-and about one American doctor's extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge's story. Part... -
Contested Loyalty: Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North by Robert M. Sandow 9780823279753
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $107.98Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags,... -
Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials by Basak Ertu r 9781531501853
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $156.18WINNER, SLSA SOCIO-LEGAL THEORY AND HISTORY PRIZE SHORTLISTED, THE HART-SLSA BOOK PRIZE Spectacles and Specters draws on theories of performativity to conceptualize the entanglements of law and... -
The Love of Learning and The Desire God: A Study of Monastic Culture by Jean Leclercq 9780823204076
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $55.27The 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.About... -
Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain by Brandon Bayne 9780823294206
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $183.86Winner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize While the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became... -
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Interpreting Thomas More's "Utopia" by John C. Olin 9780823212330
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.42The proceedings of a symposium commemorating the 450th anniversary of Thomas More's death and the 50th anniversary of his canonization, Interpreting Thomas More's Utopia presents four leading Morean...