October 11, 2020

Q&A: M’hamed Oualdi on A Slave Between Empires

“M’hamed Oualdi’s biography cum social history is dazzling. In life and death, General Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah’s story reveals unlikely itineraries, unsuspected traveling companions, and hidden transactions that call into question conventional histories of nineteenth-century North Africa and the Ottoman Empire....

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

Webinar: #RaiseUP How University Presses Work for Overlooked Authors & Ideas

 In a time when information moves faster than ever, it’s critical that books about the most important events of the day are nurtured, championed, and made widely available. In this webinar, staff and authors from the university press community...

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...

October 8, 2020

Join Wendy Lochner for a Tour of our SPEP Virtual Exhibit!

Hello, philosophers of all stripes and types. I’m Wendy Lochner, the philosophy editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the fall/winter conferences—the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the American Philosophical Association Eastern...

October 6, 2020

New Book Tuesday! A Community of Scholars and Hire Purpose

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Columbiana seires A Community of Scholars Seventy-Five Years of The University Seminars at Columbia Edited by Thomas Vinciguerra A Community of Scholars is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding...

September 30, 2020

Introducing the Hong Kong Literature Series!

From the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

In this video, series editor John Minford introduces the Hong Kong Literature Series and speaks to how this collection reveals the hidden depths of Hong Kong’s soul. The series is published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. Now...

September 30, 2020

New From Our Distributed Presses! The Practice of Medicine as Being in Time, A History of Cultic Images in China, and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! ibidem Press From the Studies in Medical Philosophy series The Practice of Medicine as Being in Time Raymond C. Barfield The practice of medicine serves people who are facing limits in their...

September 30, 2020

Evan Friss on Bicycling Through the Pandemic

“In On Bicycles, Evan Friss fills in the missing chapters that bicycles hold in New York City’s near-miraculous transportation history and shows how the city’s streets are finally catching up with them.” ~!Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates, former NYC transportation commissioner Today...

September 29, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Mind Ecologies and A Misunderstood Friendship

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Mind Ecologies Body, Brain, and World Matthew Crippen and Jay Schulkin Matthew Crippen, a philosopher of mind, and Jay Schulkin, a behavioral neuroscientist, offer an innovative interdisciplinary theory of mind. They...