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October 10, 2022

Announcing Our 2022-2023 Philosophy Catalog

Letter from the Philosophy Editor: It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2022. These titles, which span subjects from critical theory to political philosophy to philosophy of religion, aesthetics, environmental and animal...

September 13, 2019

Weekend Reading List: Theory and Philosophy in Translation

To continue our immersion into National Translation Month, we’ve compiled a weekend reading list of translated philosophical books for you to expand your mind’s eye beyond language barriers and borders. • • • • • • From the Translations from...

March 19, 2019

New Book Tuesday! The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard; Malebranche; Vice, Crime, and Poverty and More!

Our list of new books is now available! The Caring Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bard Profiles of Selected Distinguished Graduates of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Peter Wortsman Malebranche Theological Figure, Being 2 Alain Badiou. Translated by...

March 1, 2013

The Life and Works of Alain Badiou

Check out our Pinterest board honoring the career of Alain Badiou.

March 1, 2013

Alain Badiou translates "What is a Philosopher?" from Plato's Republic

Read an excerpt from Alain Badiou’s creative new translation of Plato’s Republic.

February 28, 2013

Ward Blanton: Paula Versus the New Philosophers, or, Incident in Beijing

Read an essay by Professor Ward Blanton on the importance of Badiou’s The Incident at Antioch to the study of St. Paul.

February 27, 2013

Susan Spitzer: Translating Alain Badiou's The Incident at Antioch and Plato's Republic

Susan Spitzer discusses the experience of translating two very different works by Alain Badiou.

February 26, 2013

Kenneth Reinhard: Badiou's Sublime Translation of the Republic

Read Kenneth Reinhard’s introduction to Alain Badiou’s “hypertranslation” of Plato’s Republic.