Category: Philosophy

December 5, 2020

Video: Michael Alexander on the Origins of Making Peace with the Universe

 “What happens when worlds fall apart? It’s a question that so many of us have asked ourselves in times of crisis. The marvel of Michael Scott Alexander’s book is that he has transformed his own search into a discovery...

December 4, 2020

Michael Scott Alexander on Making Peace with the Universe

“A brilliant exploration of religious and spiritual experiences as they relate to the ability to heal the mind and promote psychological health. A missing piece of the puzzle of how religion intersects with psychological wellbeing.” ~Andrew Newberg, author of Neurotheology:...

December 3, 2020

The Op-Ed in an Evangelical Age

By L. Benjamin Rolsky

“Rise and Fall should garner a wide and varied audience, and it appears intentionally so. It is self-consciously and transparently situated, adeptly self-described in relation to a number of subfields, scholars, and paradigmatic shifts.” ~CARA BURNIDGE, Society for U.S. Intellectual History...

November 29, 2020

Take a Tour of Our AAR Virtual Exhibit with Wendy Lochner

Hi! I’m Wendy Lochner, the religion editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled fall conferences—SBL/AAR included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits on our blog to accompany our virtual booth. I will miss seeing so many friends...

November 24, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Notre-Dame of Amiens, The Arab and Jewish Questions, and Hubert Harrison

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Notre-Dame of Amiens Life of the Gothic Cathedral Stephen Murray A beautifully illustrated account of a grand, historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety...

November 17, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Bookishness, Redlining Culture, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Literature Now series Bookishness Loving Books in a Digital Age Jessica Pressman In Bookishness, Jessica Pressman examines the new status of the book as object and symbol. She explores the...

November 13, 2020

Resisters in the 2020 Election and Beyond

By Dana R. Fisher

“American Resistance is an important book, not only as a portrait of our moment but also as a challenge to traditional understandings of protest politics. Dana R. Fisher shows how wrong it is—especially in the Trump era—to draw sharp lines between...

October 14, 2020

Santiago Zabala responds to Ivelise Perniola review of Why Only Art Can Save Us

“Zabala’s extraordinary book strikes at the very heart of our spiritual predicament. From austerity politics to security measures, everything is legitimized with the axiom that we live in a state of emergency. The first task of the critique of ideology...

October 10, 2020

Video: Todd McGowan in Conversation with Richard Boothby on Emancipation After Hegel

 “Todd McGowan’s Emancipation After Hegel could not come at a more appropriate time: the time when we truly need to carefully (re)think and reestablish the idea of emancipation. The book does this in a brilliant and compelling way, taking contradiction—as understood...

October 10, 2020

Take a Tour of Our MESA Virtual Exhibit with Caelyn Cobb

Hello and welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit booth for this year’s meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. This year is unusual in more than one way for MESA. Not only are we all attending the conference...

October 10, 2020

Noëlle McAfee on Our Paranoid Politics

“In exploring the fear of breakdown that underlies human existence, Noëlle McAfee creates a genuine intellectual breakthrough—her book is a stunningly original exploration of the political significance of mourning. This is one of the most thrilling books I have read...

October 9, 2020

Video: Penelope Deutscher and Jana Sawicki in Conversation with Lynne Huffer on Foucault’s Strange Eros

 “In a provocative take on eros as a verb—as erosion of the thinking subject bound by grids of intelligibility that define her identity—Huffer offers the splendid final installment of her Foucault trilogy. Forcefully written with a capacious imagination, this book...