Columbia Press: 2357 books
by Steve Coutinho
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Steve Coutinho explores in detail the fundamental concepts of Daoist thought as represented in three early texts: the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, and the Liezi. Readers interested in philosophy yet unfamiliar with Daoism will gain a comprehensive understanding of these works from this analysis, and readers...
Why Only Art Can Save Us
Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to legitimize themselves, but the ones that political...
Chaos Imagined
Literature, Art, Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine...
Regimes of Historicity
Presentism and Experiences of Time
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
François Hartog explores crucial moments of change in society's "regimes of historicity," or its ways of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Hannah Arendt, Reinhart Koselleck, and Paul Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning The Odyssey as a work...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The Poet"
"[The poet] is a seer.... he is individual... he is complete in himself.... the others are as good as he, only he sees it and they do not....
by M. A. Orthofer
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
This user-friendly resource is the perfect reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends,...
Extreme Domesticity
A View from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered notions...
Voices of the Arab Spring
Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences...
Inside Al Qaeda
Global Network of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2002
Inside Al Qaeda examines the leadership, ideology, structure, strategies, and tactics of the most violent politico-religious organization the world has ever seen. The definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, including extensive interviews with its members; field research...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler,...
Identity Poetics
Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current...
Courtesans and Opium
Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning...
After Pluralism
Reimagining Religious Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that...