Columbia University Press: 2355 books
William James and a Science of Religions
Reexperiencing The Varieties of Religious Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
The "science of religion" is an important element in the interpretation of William James's work and in the methodology of the study of religion. An authority on pragmatism and the philosophy of religion, Wayne Proudfoot and a stellar group of contributors from a variety of disciplines including...
If A, Then B
How the World Discovered Logic
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where...
Dying
A Transition
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research on near-death experiences,...
Pathologies of Reason
On the Legacy of Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past five years reclaim the relevant themes of...
Situating Existentialism
Key Texts in Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative...
Foundations of the American Century
The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Inderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces...
Dialectical Passions
Negation in Postwar Art Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical...
Boys Don't Cry?
Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2002
We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This...
Animalia Americana
Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson, Boggs argues that animals are critical to the...
by James B. Twitchell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
"If you ask men if they spend any time hiding, they usually look at you as if you're nuts. 'What, me hide?' But if you ask women whether men hide, they immediately know what you mean."—from Where Men Hide
Where Men Hide is a spirited tour of the dark and often dirty places men go...
Left-Wing Melancholia
Marxism, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have...
Religion in America
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Denis Lacorne identifies two competing narratives defining the American identity. The first narrative, derived from the philosophy of the Enlightenment, is essentially secular. Associated with the Founding Fathers and reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist...
Animal Rights
A Historical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical...
by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication...