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January 12, 2009

Post-Convention Wrap-Ups — Philosophy

There seems to have been less coverage of the American Philosophical Association‘s meeting than some of the other academic conventions but below are a few dispatches from the meeting. Like the other conventions concerns about a shrinking job market were...

December 3, 2008

A New Type of Human Being and Who We Really Are — Robert Hullot-Kentor in The Brooklyn Rail

The title to Robert Hullot Kentor’s essay in the Brooklyn Rail comes from an unfinished 1941 essay by Theodor Adorno. Hullot-Kentor, who is the author of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno, argues that the “New Type...

November 25, 2008

Philosophy in Turbulent Times Reviewed in the London Review of Books

Elif Batuman offers a very interesting and spirited review of Elisabeth Roudinesco’s Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida in the London Review of Books. In the review Batuman considers Roudinesco’s unique take on each thinker...

October 30, 2008

Interviewing Cixous

The recently published White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text, and Politics includes a variety of interviews with Hélène Cixous, providing rich, new perspectives on her work and her influential ideas. The book also includes dialogues with Derrida and Foucault. Interview...

September 29, 2008

Interview with Daniel Herwitz, author of The Star as Icon

The following is an interview with Daniel Herwitz, author of The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption: Q: There’s a Lady Diana book industry out there that keeps the discount catalogues of England and America in...

June 25, 2008

Gary Francione on "Vegan Freak"

With the recent release of some very noteworthy titles in animal studies as well as our special 50% off sale, we’ve been writing quite a bit about our books in the field. Today, we point you to Gary Francione’s recent...

June 3, 2008

Why Animal Studies Now?: A Short Personal Note from the Editor

The following post is by Wendy Lochner, senior executive editor for Religion, Philosophy, and Animal Studies Why animal studies now? Like many people who are interested in the fate of animals and of the Earth, I came to this issue...

May 22, 2008

Wellek Library Lectures

Even as academics and scholars start to get ready for their summer break, there is still much anticipation and excitement about the Wellek Library Lectures series, which is going on this week. Held annually since 1981 at the Critical Theory...

May 15, 2008

The Importance of Ernst Tugendhat: An Interview with Santiago Zabala

Ernst Tugendhat, has become in the words of Richard Rorty, a philosopher, who “built bridges between continents and between centuries.” Admirers of Tugendhat, Rorty among them, point to his ability to move beyond the continental/analytic divide that has characterized and...

May 5, 2008

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language by John T. Hamilton event at Book Culture

In Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language John Hamilton investigates the way literary, philosophical, and psychological treatments of music and madness challenge the limits of representation and create a crisis of language. Hamilton traces the linkage of music and...

April 18, 2008

Fear of Freedom by Carlo Levi: An Event at the Italian Academy

While in exile during the Second World War, Carlo Levi, the famous painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family wrote the canonical essay “Of Fear and Freedom,” which was later published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux and in...

March 21, 2008

Blogging Columbia University Press Authors

While we hope you stay and read the posts on this blog, we also want to let you know about some other Columbia-related blogs: Noelle McAfee, visiting professor of philosophy at George Mason University and author of the just published...

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