Aesthetics

Art and Posthistory

Conversations on the End of Aesthetics Arthur C. Danto and Demetrio Paparoni Foreword by Barry Schwabsky

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic Demetrio Paparoni. Art and Posthistory presents these rich dialogues and correspondence, testifying to the ongoing importance of Danto’s ideas.

$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-20477-4 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20476-7 2022 192 pages

COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS

Internationalist Aesthetics

China and Early Soviet Culture Edward Tyerman

Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community.

$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19919-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19918-6 2021 368 pages 27 illus. Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language

Julia Kristeva Translated by Jody Gladding Foreword by Rowan Williams

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking. Reading across his major novels and shorter works, Kristeva offers incandescent insights into the potent themes that draw her back to the Russian master.

$20.00 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20332-6 2021 112 pages

EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM

Posthumanism in Art and Science

A Reader Edited by Giovanni Aloi and Susan McHugh

Posthumanism in Art and Science is an anthology of indispensable statements and artworks featuring a diverse sampling of major thinkers as well as acclaimed artists and curators. Their provocative and compelling works speak to the ongoing conceptual and political challenge of posthuman theories in a time of cultural and environmental crises.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19667-3 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19666-6 2021 384 pages 25 illus.

Poetics of Liveliness

Molecules, Fibers, Tissues, Clouds Ada Smailbegović

Ada Smailbegović shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century writers have intermingled scientific methodologies with poetic form to reveal unfolding processes of change. Poetics of Liveliness moves across scales to explore the realms of molecules, fibers, tissues, and clouds.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19827-1 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19826-4 2021 352 pages

Children of Prometheus: Romanticism and Its Legacy

Essays in Literature, Philosophy, and Cultural Politics Gregory Maertz

In these nine related essays, Gregory Maertz investigates the expression of romanticism in literature, philosophy, and cultural politics from the Renaissance to modernism. Other essays are clustered around the literary activity of writers and philosophers associated with radicalism in Britain and transcendentalism in America.

$35.00 paper 978-3-8382-1591-4 2021 180 pages

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The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change

Jason Miller

Connecting Hegelian aesthetics with contemporary cultural politics, Jason Miller argues that both the aesthetic and political value of art is found in the reflexive self-awareness that it enables. The significance of art in modern life is that it shows us both the particular element in humanity as well as the human element in particularity.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20143-8 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20142-1 2021 288 pages 7 illus.

COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS

Humanist Reason

A History. An Argument. A Plan Eric Hayot

Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new vision to demonstrate what the humanities can tell us about our world.

$25.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19785-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19784-7 2021 232 pages