Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Creating Judaism
History, Tradition, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
How can we define "Judaism," and what are the common threads uniting ancient rabbis, Maimonides, the authors of the Zohar, and modern secular Jews in Israel? Michael L. Satlow offers a fresh perspective on Judaism that recognizes both its similarities and its immense diversity. Presenting...
The End of Progress
Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School—Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, and Rainer Forst—have defended...
by Avrum Stroll
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2000
Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to knowledge -it also has humanistic ties to the...
Man, the State, and War
A Theoretical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists...
Intimate Strangers
Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of...
Glimmer of a New Leviathan
Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
The Second World War put an end to America's historical isolation from international power politics, and so also to the long-standing American defiance of the Realist ideology that shaped Old World affairs. The advent of transoceanic military technologies, now wielded by menacing states such as Nazi...
After Evil
A Politics of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling...
Desolation and Enlightenment
Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating...
Rage and Time
A Psychopolitical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and indignation....
A Hedonist Manifesto
The Power to Exist
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, ethical,...
by Paul Gilroy
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2004
In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox defense of the multiculture. Gilroy's searing analyses...
From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility
A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy...
Violence and Civility
On the Limits of Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes...
Recognition or Disagreement
A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary...