March, 2011 - Columbia University Press Blog

March 8, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Vattimo and Hegel

The following books are now available: A Farewell to Truth Gianni Vattimo Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic Edited by Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, and Creston Davis Inside New York 2011 Inside New York Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation...

March 7, 2011

Craving Earth (and Ice): Sera Young on Sonic Ice

“I NEVER join these things but I really DO love Sonic Ice!!”– A post on the Sonic Ice Facebook page In Craving Earth: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice and Chalk, Sera L. Young examines nonfood cravings described in...

March 4, 2011

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab: Revolution and Enlightenment in the Arab World?

The following post is by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective. Portions of this were also part of a BBC interview with Kassab. (You can listen to the BBC interview here.) I have...

March 3, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko: New Pragmatism versus Failing Neoliberalism

“The source of the current global economic crisis lies in the failure of America’s neoliberal capitalism.”—Grzegorz W. Kolodko The following essay is from Grzegorz W. Kolodko, the author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World....

March 1, 2011

New Book Tuesday: A Philosophical Retrospective and Fantasies of the New Class

These books are now available: A Philosophical Retrospective: Facts, Values, and Jewish Identity Alan Montefiore Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction Stephen Schryer Hermaphroditism: A Primer on the Biology, Ecology, and Evolution...