Tag: Foucault’s Strange Eros

September 23, 2021

Browse Our SPEP 2021 Virtual Exhibit Booth with Wendy Lochner

Welcome to the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)’s first virtual meeting! Although I will miss seeing everyone in person, Zoom is a vast improvement on cancellation, and this meeting is a tribute to everyone who came together to...

January 7, 2021

Announcing Our 2021 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: We are pleased to present the 2021 Columbia University Press literary studies catalog. The past year was a challenging one on many fronts and we hope the books in this catalog reflect the various ways in...

January 7, 2021

Browse Our MLA Virtual Book Exhibit with Philip Leventhal

Welcome to the Columbia University Press virtual exhibit for the MLA conference. I am Philip Leventhal, editor for literary studies, and while it is disappointing not to have the opportunity to see everyone in person at MLA this year, I...

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...

May 19, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Film Studies and Foucault’s Strange Eros

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Film and Culture Series Film Studies, second edition An Introduction Ed Sikov Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. The second edition...

March 31, 2020

Book Excerpts! Mad for Foucault and Are the Lips a Grave?, By Lynne Huffer

As part of our celebration of Women’s History Month, we are featuring Foucault’s Strange Eros, a modern consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics. by Lynne Huffer. In this forthcoming book, Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet and shows how...

March 30, 2020

Sapphic Foucault

By Lynne Huffer

“Foucault’s Strange Eros challenges its readers to describe aptly, to touch delicately their seeking, mortal, embodied selves. The book elicits and sustains their interest. It rejoices on some pages to weep on others, but it is animated throughout by generous reading...