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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...

January 3, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: Four English professors, some friends, some strangers, decide to read Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet together. Their subsequent exchange of letters and essays about the experience of reading the novels resulted in The Ferrante Letters. This book...

December 31, 2019

Eight Books to Help You Understand the Climate Crises and What You Can do to Curtail Future Deterioration

Climate change is a global problem. The increasing temperature, shrinking ice sheets, and surge of extreme weather conditions have damaged Earth—affecting everyone that lives on this planet. Forecasts show that these effects will only get more extreme as time goes...

October 28, 2019

Announcing Our 2019-2020 Philosophy Catalog

Letter from the Philosophy Editor: It is with great pleasure that I present the Columbia University Press philosophy catalog for 2020. These books, which span subjects from aesthetics to ethics; critical life, environmental, and animal studies; Asian studies; philosophy of religion;...

September 10, 2019

New Book Tuesday! A Philosophy of the Insect, The Wake of Crows, What Slaveholders Think, and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! A Philosophy of the Insect Jean-Marc Drouin. Translated by Anne Trager. The Wake of Crows Living and Dying in Shared Worlds Thom van Dooren What Slaveholders Think How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize...

August 18, 2017

It Is an Entire World That Has Disappeared

Read the afterword to EXTINCTION STUDIES: STORIES OF TIME, DEATH, AND GENERATIONS, edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew, with a foreword by Cary Wolfe!

August 17, 2017

Telling Extinction Stories

Read the introduction to EXTINCTION STUDIES: STORIES OF TIME, DEATH, AND GENERATIONS, edited by Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren, and Matthew Chrulew, with a foreword by Cary Wolfe!

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