The University of Notre Dame Press is proud to present our Fall 2024 catalog! This season’s titles engage a variety of topics, including bioethics and medical ethics, American foreign policy, the plight of democracy, short fiction, Notre Dame football, and more.
Some highlights and campus partnerships include:
- Ara, by Mark Hubbard, is a biography that brings together the memories, coaching style, and personal files of beloved football coach, Ara Parseghian. In an effort to highlight the vivid personality and character of this Notre Dame coach, Hubbard formulates a life story filled with joys, sorrows, successes, and struggles, depicting Parseghian’s life in a manner that is heartfelt and humanizing.
- Fighting Irish Football, by Charles Lamb and Elizabeth Hogan, dives deep into the archives at the University of Notre Dame, retrieving photos that are as historically significant as they are breathtaking. These images capture the history of Notre Dame football from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century through today.
- The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series receives the thrilling conclusion of the four-volume March 1917 saga. March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4 depicts the sociopolitical turbulence of the Russian Revolution. In this work, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gives a day-by-day account depicting a diverse array of those in Russian society and their confusion amid the chaos of governmental implosion. The third book in the series, March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3, will also be available as a paperback.
- Brimming with philosophical insights and theological symbolism, David Bentley Hart’s Prisms, Veils is a collection of surprising and dreamlike fables with unprecedented mythological depth. Different from Hart’s well-known essays religion, theology, and philosophy, this forthcoming book demonstrates his ability to balance creativity with spiritual truths.
- Relying on his extensive experience in court rooms around the world, Knox H. Thames brings together a compelling assessment of the nature of religious persecution around the globe in his work, Ending Persecution. With his keen insights as a longstanding international human rights lawyer, Thames elucidates the heart-wrenching reality of religious oppression and suggests key ways that the United States can reinforce its efforts for religious freedom for all.
- Artur Rosman has translated the magnum opus of Catholic philosopher Józef Tischner, which offers a philosophical interpretation of the human experience and articulates a metaphysics of good and evil. Long overdue for translation into English, The Philosophy of Drama is one of the most important works of Polish philosophy to date.
- Two new books are forthcoming in the Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics series. In The Ethics of Precision Medicine, Paul Scherz explores the ethical challenges raised by precision medicine and its focus on medical risk as opposed to current disease. In Bioethics after God, Mark J. Cherry explores the relationship between morality and medicine in a society that has denied the existence of God. Finally, Jason T. Eberl’s The Nature of Human Persons will now be available in paperback.
- Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo’s Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism is part of the Contending Modernities series. This book demonstrates that not only has colonialism had a devastating impact on the colonized, but its reach has turned inward to erode the colonizer’s own social and political systems.
- New in the Liu Institute Series in Chinese Christianities, Justin K.H. Tse’s Sheets of Scattered Sand offers deep and meaningful insights into the Cantonese Protestant by gathering the personal experiences of community members from their time during the “Pacific Rim.” Focusing on the metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong, Tse’s work opens up new perspectives and nuances surrounding contemporary events such as the Hong Kong protests and emerging Asian American politics.
- The latest addition to the Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development, The Authoritarian Divide by Orçun Selçuk argues that the binary mode of populism always tends towards a degree of political polarization. Selçuk tracks the intricacies of three polarizing populist leaders’ tactics as a means to better understand the political scenes of other countries.
- The Early Printed Illustrations of Dante’s “Commedia” by Matthew Collins develops a unique interdisciplinary method of analyzing 230 manuscripts and drawings of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Through a thorough tracing of their visual genealogies, Collins demonstrates the impact that these images had on the audiences of their time. This is the newest book in the William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature.
- Notre Dame Press is excited to share our first open access ebook, A Theology of Health by Tyler J. VanderWeele. This book presents a Christian understanding of the very concept of health, both the health of the body and the health of the person.
We hope you enjoy browsing through the catalog. You can preorder these titles and read more about other books from Notre Dame Press on our website. This catalog is also available on Edelweiss. For more information, or to request review copies of forthcoming titles, contact: Quinn Baumeister, qbaumeis@nd.edu, (574) 631-3267.