Columbia Press: 2357 books
Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
Art as Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard...
Field Notes from Elsewhere
Reflections on Dying and Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery...
by Sasha Sokolov
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated translators because of its complex...
Twenty-first Century Motherhood
Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications...
The Primacy of the Political
A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts...
Polishing Your Prose
How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume...
by Bangqing Han
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a...
Modernism at the Barricades
Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, he follows the rise of...
In Stereotype
South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death,...
Fate, Time, and Language
An Essay on Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world,...
by Gianni Vattimo, John Caputo
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo...
Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery
An Essay on Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standards...
by Jacques Le Goff
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the...
Born Translated
The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques...