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CONTENTS Theory ..................................................................3 No Limits.............................................................8 Politics .................................................................9 Aesthetics ............................................................13 Animals, Environment, and Food .......................15 Asian Philosophy ................................................17 Science and Technology........................................18 Religion ............................................................20 History ..............................................................22 Gender...............................................................23 Best of the Backlist.............................................24 Ordering Information........................................24 Manuscript queries and proposals can be sent to Wendy Lochner (wl2003@columbia.edu).
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Titles published by Transcript Publishing, and ibidem Press are available from Columbia only in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly. What World Is This?
A Pandemic Phenomenology Judith Butler
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—have challenged us to reconsider the sense of the world that such disasters bring about. Criticizing notions of unlimited personal liberty and the killing forces of racism, sexism, and classism, this book suggests that the pandemic illuminates the potential of shared vulnerabilities as well as the injustice of pervasive inequalities.
$17.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20829-1 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20828-4 November 2022 144 pages
Making Space for Justice
Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope Michele Moody-Adams
Michele Moody-Adams explores what social movements have shown about the nature of justice and what it takes to create space for justice in the world. She argues that these insights are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be transformative for political thought as well as for political activism.
$28.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20137-7 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20136-0 2022 360 pages
Young Foucault
The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952–1955 Elisabetta Basso Foreword by Bernard E. Harcourt. Translated by Marie Satya McDonough.
Recently discovered manuscripts from the mid1950s, when Michel Foucault was a lecturer at the University of Lille, testify to the significance of the philosopher’s early work. Elisabetta Basso offers a groundbreaking and in-depth analysis of Foucault’s Lille manuscripts that sheds new light on the origins of his philosophical project.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20585-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20584-9 November 2022 352 pages
The Philosophical Foundations of Social Work
Second Edition Frederic G. Reamer
Social work rests on complex philosophical assumptions that should be central to practice, education, and training. Frederic G. Reamer explores how these issues bear on the purpose, methods, and perspectives of social work and their far-reaching implications. This second edition is revised and updated throughout to address contemporary challenges.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20397-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20396-8 2022 280 pages Energy and Change
A New Materialist Cosmotheology Clayton Crockett
Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leadingedge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary philosophies of new materialism, non-Western traditions, and the sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a material process spanning physics, biology, politics, ecology, and religion.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-20611-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20610-5 2022 304 pages
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
Siegfried Kracauer Edited by Jaeho Kang, Graeme Gilloch, and John Abromeit
This book brings together a broad selection of Siegfried Kracauer’s work on media and political communication, much of it previously unavailable in English. It features writings spanning more than two decades, from the 1930s to the early Cold War period.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-15897-8 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-15896-1 2022 480 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Crisis Under Critique
How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations Edited by Didier Fassin and Axel Honneth
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and a group of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and response to critical situations. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention.
$40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20433-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-20432-3 2022 456 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Critique of Bored Reason
On the Confinement of the Modern Condition Dmitri Nikulin
In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept’s genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such thinkers as Descartes, Pascal, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kracauer, Heidegger, and Benjamin, Critique of Bored Reason places boredom on center stage in the philosophical critique of modernity.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18907-1 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18906-4 2022 328 pages
Critique of Latin American Reason
Santiago Castro-Gómez Translated by Andrew Ascherl Foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff
Introduction by Eduardo Mendieta
Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have emerged from South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory.
$32.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20007-3 $130.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20006-6 2021 352 pages Praxis and Revolution
A Theory of Social Transformation Eva von Redecker Translated by Lucy Duggan
Eva von Redecker reconsiders critical theory’s understanding of radical change in order to offer a bold new account of how revolution occurs. She argues that revolutions are not singular events but extended processes: beginning from the interstices of society, they succeed by gradually rearticulating social structures toward a new paradigm.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19823-3 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19822-6 2021 296 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Matter, Affect, AntiNormativity
Theory Beyond Dualism Caroline Braunmühl
Caroline Braunmühl shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. The book suggests specific alternatives to dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter/mind, affect/discourse and negativity/ affirmation.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6166-8 2022 198 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
Approaches to Death and Dying
Bioethical and Cultural Perspectives Edited by Marta Szabat, Jan Piasecki
A catalog of works devoted to end-of-life themes. The volume consists of eleven articles arranged in four parts corresponding to a broad range of issues: law, ethics, philosophy, and cultural studies. The arrangement of the book is thus constructed around various perspectives upon which any reflection on death and dying must be based.
$50.00 / £40.00 paper 978-83-233-5055-2 2022 216 pages 43 illus.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Needful Structures
The Dialectics of Action, Technology, and Society in Sartre's Later Philosophy Marcel Siegler
Based on a novel, complementary reading of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Siegler develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the intricate machinations of sociotechnical systems from a perspective on situated humantechnology interaction.
$45.00 paper 978-3-8376-6282-5 February 2023 200 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
You Are Fundamental
A Revolutionary New View of Consciousness Chris H. Ransford Foreword by Trevor Harley
The book offers readers new insights into interpretations of current research in physics and enables readers without a background in physics to understand the implications and their relevance for our understanding of consciousness.
$19.00 paper 978-3-8382-1703-1 2022 130 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Prometheus Unbound
The Perils and Promises of Transhumanism Dan Corjescu Foreward by David Doat
This book engages critically with some of the major assumptions of prominent transhumanists to strike a cautionary note about humanity’s reliance on emerging technologies.
$29.00 paper 978-3-8382-1698-0 2022 160 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Self-Knowledge and Moral Identity
Edited by Ranjan Kumar Panda
Many contemporary philosophers, such as Akeel Bilgrami, Crispin Wright, Christine Korsgaard, and Mrinal Miri, have explicitly discussed the relevance of self-knowledge in relation to the discourse of normativity. This book addresses the notion of self-knowledge as relevant in the formation of moral identity.
$45.00 / £35.00 cloth 978-81-950559-3-7 2022 292 pages
TULIKA BOOKS
The Global Ape
Between Extinction and Transcendence Dan Corjescu
This book reconsiders the enduring questions of philosophy, taking readers on an intellectual journey encompassing politics, history, sociology, religion, and science. It examines great thinkers such as Aristotle and Nietzsche and confronts readers with some of humanity’s most sublime achievements and horrific failures.
$42.00 paper 978-3-8382-1612-6 2022 260 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Phenomenology of Productive Imagination
Embodiment, Language, Subjectivity Saulius Geniusas
Saulius Geniusas develops a new phenomenology of productive imagination. Investigating the relations among imagination and embodiment, affectivity, perception, language, selfhood, and intersubjectivity, he demonstrates the unexpected ways that the phenomenology of productive imagination enriches our understanding of embodied subjectivity.
$48.00 paper 978-3-8382-1552-5 2022 318 pages
