December 12, 2022

Announcing The Columbia University Press Spring 2023 Catalog

Dear Readers, I am proud to present our Spring 2023 catalog, which demonstrates the shared strengths of Columbia University Press and Columbia University itself. In these books, Columbia authors build on distinguished careers to share important ideas with readers everywhere....

October 19, 2021

Announcing the Winner of the Seventh Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award

Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce that I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today by Partha Chatterjee is the winner of the seventh annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book...

September 28, 2020

Announcing our 2020-2021 Philosophy Catalog

Letter from the Philosophy Editor: It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2020. These titles, which span subjects from critical theory to political philosophy to philosophy of religion, aesthetics, environmental and animal...

September 13, 2020

The Rebirth of Praxis

By Bernard E. Harcourt

“With his typical combination of erudition, eloquent argument, and theoretical clarity, Bernard Harcourt now gives us a complete account of his reading of contemporary critical philosophy, articulating it with immediate issues in the field of human rights and democratic politics....

September 11, 2020

Video: Bernard E. Harcourt Asks, “Can Critical Theory Change the World?”

 “Today the paradigm has shifted and praxis must be posed as subjectivation. If before the problem consisted in responding to ‘What is to be done?,’ today the question is ‘What more am I to do?’ Harcourt thus transforms critical...

September 10, 2020

Book Launch: Critique & Praxis

Canceled! We are all mourning the loss of the great Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and extend to her family our deepest condolences. #StreetRidersNYC are not riding.Let’s meet instead today at the vigil for RBG in NYC. Time & location will be...

June 23, 2020

New Book Tuesday! The Fury Archives, Critique and Praxis, Other Moons and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! New from the Modernist Latitudes series. The Fury Archives Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes Jill Richards In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, radical women’s movements and...

August 6, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Shadow Archives, The Unworthy Scholar, Female Fighters and More!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Shadow Archives The Lifecycles of African American Literature Jean-Christophe Cloutier Female Fighters Why Rebel Groups Recruit Women for War Reed M. Wood The New Censorship Inside the Global Battle for Media...