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Aesthetics
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language
Julia Kristeva Translated by Jody Gladding Foreword by Rowan Williams
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Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. Reading across his major novels and shorter works, Kristeva offers incandescent insights into the potent themes that draw her back to the Russian master.
$20.00 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20332-6 December 2021 112 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Critique of Bored Reason
On the Confinement of the Modern Condition Dmitri Nikulin
In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept’s genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such thinkers as Descartes, Pascal, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kracauer, Heidegger, and Benjamin, Critique of Bored Reason places boredom on center stage in the philosophical critique of modernity.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18907-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18906-4 January 2022 360 pages The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change
Jason Miller
Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art is found in the reflexive self-awareness that it enables. The significance of art in modern life is that it shows us both the particular element in humanity as well as the human element in particularity.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20143-8 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20142-1 2021 288 pages 7 illus.
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Looking Through Images
A Phenomenology of Visual Media Emmanuel Alloa Translated by Nils F. Schott Afterword by Andrew Benjamin
Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18793-0 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-18792-3 October 2021 408 pages 36 illus.
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Inwardness
An Outsider's Guide Jonardon Ganeri
Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the world’s intellectual cultures, ancient and modern, on how each of us creates an inner world. This book is a thoughtprovoking consideration of the value—or peril— of turning one’s gaze inward.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19229-3 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19228-6 2021 144 pages
NO LIMITS
Aimlessness
Tom Lutz
Aimlessness collects ideas and stories from around the world that value indirection, wandering, getting lost, waiting, meandering, lingering, sitting, laying about, daydreaming, and other ways to be open to possibility, chaos, and multiplicity.
$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19935-3 $75.00 / £58.00 cloth 978-0-231-19934-6 2021 184 pages
NO LIMITS
Internationalist Aesthetics
China and Early Soviet Culture Edward Tyerman
Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19919-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19918-6 December 2021 360 pages 27 illus. Times of Experience, Ways of Beholding
How Time Got Away With Art Kurt Walter Forster
In the eighteenth century, geologists preoccupied with the unfathomable depths of time sought to place every organism on a timeline. Just as the earth acquired a history, architecture and art found ways of locating themselves in a perspective that vanishes in the anthropocene, urging fresh inquiry into artistic perception.
$40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5484-4 2021 300 pages 90 illus.
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Poetics of Liveliness
Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds Ada Smailbegović
Ada Smailbegović shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers have intermingled scientific methodologies with poetic form to reveal unfolding processes of change. Poetics of Liveliness moves across scales to explore the realms of molecules, fibers, tissues, and clouds.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19827-1 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19826-4 2021 360 pages Arts of Address
Being Alive to Language and the World Monique Roelofs
Monique Roelofs offers a pathbreaking systematic model of the field of address and puts it to work in the arts, critical theory, and social life. Drawing on a wide array of artistic sources and challenging disciplinary boundaries, she illuminates its significance to cultural existence and to our reflexive aesthetic engagement in it.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19437-2 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19436-5 2020 344 pages 27 illus.
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
You and Your Profile
Identity After Authenticity Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio
Profile-based identity is evident everywhere from pop culture to politics, marketing to morality. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio argue that the profile marks an epochal shift in our concept of identity. They outline how it works, how we readily apply it in our daily lives, and how it shapes our values— personally, economically, and ethically. In doing so they provide a practical vocabulary of life in the digital age. Humanist Reason
A History. An Argument. A Plan Eric Hayot
Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new vision to demonstrate what the humanities can tell us about our world.
$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19785-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19784-7 2021 232 pages
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19601-7 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19600-0 2021 312 pages.
Postprint
Books and Becoming Computational N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence of what she identifies as the postprint condition, exploring how the interweaving of print and digital technologies has changed not only books but also language, authorship, and what it means to be human.
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19825-7 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19824-0 2020 248 pages 25 illus.
THE WELLEK LIBRARY LECTURES
Foucault’s Strange Eros
Lynne Huffer
In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject.
$26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19715-1 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19714-4 2020 280 pages
Social Appearances
A Philosophy of Display and Prestige Barbara Carnevali Translated by Zakiya Hanafi
In this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18707-7 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18706-0 2020 304 pages
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Posthumanism in Art and Science
A Reader Edited by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh
Posthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring a diverse sampling of major thinkers as well as acclaimed artists and curators. Their provocative and compelling works speak to the ongoing conceptual and political challenge of posthuman theories in a time of cultural and environmental crises.
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19667-3 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19666-6 2021 384 pages 25 illus.
Mixed Reality and Games
Theoretical and Practical Approaches in Game Studies and Education Edited by Emir Bektic, Daniela Bruns, Sonja Gabriel, Florian Kelle, Gerhard Pölsterl, and Felix Schniz
This book provides a combination of theoretical and practical approaches to mixed reality through the lenses of game studies and pedagogy. These novel approaches invite the reader to rethink their conceptions and are complemented with classical analyses of games and applications in educational contexts.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5329-8 2021 296 pages 10 illus.
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Beyond the Mirror
Seeing in Art History and Visual Culture Studies Susanne von Falkenhausen
Susanne von Falkenhausen reveals the concept of seeing as a scholarly act that underwrites competing approaches to visuality and society. In close readings of key texts spanning the early twentieth century to the present, she crosses between American, German, and British versions of art history, cultural studies, aesthetics, and film studies.
$75.00 paper 978-3-8376-5352-6 2021 250 pages 1 illus.
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Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy
Essays in Literature, Philosophy, and Cultural Politics Gregory Maertz
In these nine related essays, Gregory Maertz investigates the expression of Romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to Modernism. Other essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America.
$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1591-4 2021 180 pages
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Still
Samuel Beckett’s Quietism Andy Wimbush
Andy Wimbush argues that quietism—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Samuel Beckett’s artistic vision. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, he shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism and turned it into a new aesthetic.
$46.00 paper 978-3-8382-1369-9 2020 272 pages 2 illus.
