Columbia University Press: 2355 books
The Invention of International Relations Theory
Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The 1954 Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, featured a who's who of scholars and practitioners debating the foundations of international relations theory. Assembling his own team of experts, all of whom have struggled with this legacy, Nicolas Guilhot revisits a seminal...
Factory of Strategy
Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory.
Lenin is the only...
Hegel and the Infinite
Religion, Politics, and Dialectic
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion....
Spinoza for Our Time
Politics and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. Responding to a resurgent interest in Spinoza's thought and...
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is...
by Gianni Vattimo
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Over the course of his career, Gianni Vattimo has assumed a number of public and private identities and has pursued multiple intellectual paths. He seems to embody several contradictions, at once defending and questioning religion and critiquing and serving the state. Yet the diversity of his life...
Queer Beauty
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several...
Governance in the New Global Disorder
Politics for a Post-Sovereign Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
When we talk about globalization, we tend to focus on its social and economic benefits. In Governance in the New Global Disorder, the political philosopher Daniel Innerarity considers its unsettling and largely unacknowledged consequences. The "opening" of different societies to new ideas,...
Marx After Marx
History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped...
The Late Age of Print
Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials,...
Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure
A Tale That Begins with Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determine, consciously and unconsciously, what people do in response. So, among people walking along the...
Cinematic Overtures
How to Read Opening Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A great movie’s first few minutes provide the key to the rest of the film. Like the opening paragraphs of a novel, they draw the viewer in, setting up the thematic concerns and stylistic approach that will be developed over the course of the narrative. A strong opening sequence leads the viewer...
Russia and the Idea of the West
Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2000
An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely...
Flight Ways
Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways...