Classic and Contemporary French Translations

Columbia University Press has published a range of classic and contemporary works by world-renowned French historians, philosophers, religious studies scholars, and social theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Hélène Cixous, Gilles Deleuze, and Julia Kristeva. A core goal of our European Perspectives and other series is to introduce the Francophone thinkers who have greatly influenced contemporary theory to an English-speaking audience.

Regimes of Historicity

Presentism and Experiences of Time

François Hartog. Translated by Saskia Brown

PUB DATE: 
DECEMBER 2016

Religion in America

A Political History

Denis Lacorne. Translated by George Holoch. Foreword by Tony Judt

PUB DATE: JUNE 2014

Food

A Culinary History

Edited by Jean-Louis Flandrin and Massimo Montanari. Translated by Albert Sonnenfeld

PUB DATE: 
MAY 2013

Film, a Sound Art

Michel Chion. Translated by Claudia Gorbman

PUB DATE: 
JULY 2009

Molecular Gastronomy

Exploring the Science of Flavor

Hervé This

PUB DATE:
AUGUST 2008

The Neutral

Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978)

Roland Barthes. Translated by Rosalind Krauss and Denis Hollier

PUB DATE: 
JULY 2007

Alterity and Transcendence

Emmanuel Levinas. Translated by Michael B. Smith

PUB DATE:
APRIL 2001


What Is Philosophy?

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell III

PUB DATE: 
MAY 1996

Realms of Memory

The Construction of the French Past

Edited by Pierre Nora and Lawrence D. Kritzman. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

PUB DATE:
SEPTEMBER 1997

Difference and Repetition

Gilles Deleuze. Translated by Paul Patton

PUB DATE: 
MAY 1995

Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing

Hélène Cixous. Translated by Sarah Cornell and Susan Sellers

PUB DATE:
DECEMBER 1994

The Field of Cultural Production

Pierre Bourdieu

PUB DATE: 
APRIL 1994

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche

Luce Irigaray. Translated by Gillian C. Gill

PUB DATE: 
APRIL 1991

Powers of Horror

An Essay on Abjection

Julia Kristeva. Translated by Leon S. Roudiez

PUB DATE: 
JUNE 1984