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Who Can Afford to Improvise?

Who Can Afford to Improvise?

James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners

Ed Pavlić

Based on unprecedented access to private correspondence, unpublished manuscripts and attuned to a musically inclined poet’s skill in close listening, Who Can Afford to Improvise? retraces the full arc of James Baldwin’s passage across the pages and stages of his career amplifying our sense of his contemporary relevance.

ISBN: 9780823276837

The Guide to Gethsemane

The Guide to Gethsemane

Anxiety, Suffering, Death

Emmanuel Falque

Translated by George Hughes

Anxiety, suffering and death are not simply the “ills” of our society, nor are they uniquely the product of a sick and sinful humanity. We must all some day confront them, and we continually...

ISBN: 9780823281954

How to Do Comparative Theology

How to Do Comparative Theology

Edited by Francis X. Clooney and Klaus von Stosch

How To Do Comparative Theology clarifies method in comparative theology, dialogical learning, showcasing scholars doing theological work interreligiously. The group is diverse by age and stage of career, gender, religions studied, location in the United States and Europe. Yet the essays manifest coherence in intent, commitment to learning from the other, and confidence regarding the benefits of the questions and challenges arising.

ISBN: 9780823278411

The God Who Deconstructs Himself

The God Who Deconstructs Himself

Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida

Nick Mansfield

No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror,' the issue of the extent...

ISBN: 9780823232420

Teach Me to Be Generous

Teach Me to Be Generous

The First Century of Regis High School in New York City

Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O.

This book chronicles the founding in 1914 and development of the free Jesuit high school in the United States. As one of the most prestigious and selective high schools in the nation, Regis has offered an excellent education to generations of Catholic boys from the New York City area, many of whom would never have had access to this.

ISBN: 9780823256334

Confidentiality and Its Discontents

Confidentiality and Its Discontents

Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy

Paul W. Mosher and Jeffrey Berman

Confidentiality and Its Discontents: Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy explores the human stories arising from the psychotherapist’s dual allegiance to patient and society. These dilemmas include the hazards of publishing a case study without the patient’s permission and the unexpected problems arising from the therapist functioning as a "double agent."

ISBN: 9780823265107

Loyalty to Loyalty

Loyalty to Loyalty

Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life

Mathew A. Foust

Loyalty to Loyalty: Josiah Royce and the Genuine Moral Life clarifies the nature of loyalty and its role in ethical living, employing the philosophy of Josiah Royce as a theoretical frame. Loyalty to Loyalty provides original and extensive analysis of Royce's philosophy of loyalty, including applications to contemporary moral problems.

ISBN: 9780823242696

As Bad as They Say?

As Bad as They Say?

Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx

Janet Grossbach Mayer

Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.

ISBN: 9780823234172

Other Others

The Political after the Talmud

Sergey Dolgopolski

Other Others intervenes both to the study of the Talmud and Jewish Thought in its aftermath, and to political theory in general. Reclaiming the role of the Talmud for contemporary political theory, the book also turns on the lens of that theory to reexamine the Talmud.

ISBN: 9780823280193

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

America’s Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself)

Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the Twenty-First Century

Stephanie N. Brehm

This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert. By exploring Colbert’s position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbert’s experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance American Catholicism and the polarized American religious landscape.

ISBN: 9780823294039

How to Think About War and Peace

How to Think About War and Peace

Mortimer J. Adler

Mortimer Adler writes in his introduction: "In thinking about war and peace, as in thinking about other basic practical problems, the man who brings general ideas and principles to bear upon particular...

ISBN: 9780823216437

Giving an Account of Oneself

Giving an Account of Oneself

Judith Butler

What 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...

ISBN: 9780823225040

Giving an Account of Oneself

Giving an Account of Oneself

Judith P. Butler

What 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...

ISBN: 9780823225033

Reoccupy Earth

Notes toward an Other Beginning

David Wood

Habit rules our lives. While many of our individual habits seem perfectly reasonable, when aggregated together they spell ecological disaster. Beyond consumerism, other ways of living are clearly possible. Reoccupy Earth shows how an approach to philosophy attuned to our ecological existence can suspend the taken-for-granted and open up alternative forms of earthly dwelling.

ISBN: 9780823283538

Faith, Resistance, and the Future

Faith, Resistance, and the Future

Daniel Berrigan's Challenge to Catholic Social Thought

Edited by James L. Marsh and Anna J. Brown

The book presents Daniel Berrigan’s contribution and challenge to Catholic social thought. The aim of this book is, for the first time, to make Berrigan’s thought and life available to the academic Catholic community and to activists so that a fruitful interaction takes place.

ISBN: 9780823239825

The Unconstructable Earth

The Unconstructable Earth

An Ecology of Separation

Frédéric Neyrat

Translated by Drew S. Burk

This book contributes to the environmental humanities field by offering an analysis of the Anthropocene fantasy: the idea that the Anthropocene is an opportunity to remake our terrestrial environment thanks to the power of technology. The author argues that the earth always escapes the human desire to remake and master it.

ISBN: 9780823282579

When Ivory Towers Were Black

When Ivory Towers Were Black

A Story about Race in America's Cities and Universities

Sharon Egretta Sutton

Tells the story of how a cohort of ethnic minority students earned degrees from Columbia University’s School of Architecture. Follows two university units that steered the school toward an emancipatory approach to education. Assesses the triumphs and subsequent unraveling of an experiment to achieve racial justice in the school and in the nearby Harlem community. Informs contemporary struggles for racial and economic equality.

ISBN: 9780823276127

Like a Lake

A Story of Uneasy Love and Photography

Carol Mavor

A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and femaleWhen photographer Coda Gray...

ISBN: 9780823289325

Sacred Shelter

Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and Healing

Edited by Susan Greenfield

Thirteen formerly homeless New Yorkers tell their life stories, describing their joys as well as torments, their broken-heartedness and faith. At a time when national homelessness is on the rise, and when the discriminatory and punitive social conditions that create it are getting worse, Sacred Shelter celebrates the personal dignity of each and every individual and insists on our communal need to listen to each other.

ISBN: 9780823281190

Goods

Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image

Emanuele Coccia

Translated by Marissa Gemma

Claims advertising is nothing but a metaphysical hypothesis about the moral nature of things: objects aren't purely physical or economical entities. Any object, regardless of its nature, can become a complex of possible happiness—not just an object of value, but a moral source of perfection for any one of us.

ISBN: 9780823280230

Bob Drinan

The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress

Raymond A. Schroth

Raymond Schroth's Bob Drinan: The Controversial Life of the First Catholic Priest Elected to Congress shows that the contentious mixture of religion and politics in this country is nothing new. Four...

ISBN: 9780823233052

Event and World

Event and World

Claude Romano

Translated by Shane Mackinlay

The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure. However...

ISBN: 9780823229710

Thinking

From Solitude to Dialogue and Contemplation

Adriaan T. Peperzak

Philosophers speak—or, rather, they respond to various forms of speaking that are handed to them. This book by one of our most distinguished philosophers focuses on the communicative aspect of...

ISBN: 9780823226191

Class Degrees

Smart Work, Managed Choice, and the Transformation of Higher Education

Evan Watkins

A current truism holds that the undergraduate degree today is equivalent to the high-school diploma of yesterday. But undergraduates at a research university would probably not recognize themselves...

ISBN: 9780823229833

Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth

Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth

The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Christian G. Samito

Christian Samito writes in his introduction: "In reading Guiney’s words, one can have a fuller appreciation of what motivated civilians to volunteer to fight a war and of the privations they suffered...

ISBN: 9780823218134