2020-2021 Columbia University Press Politics and International Affairs Catalog

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POLITICAL THEORY

Critique and Praxis

Critique on the Couch

Bernard E. Harcourt

Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis Amy Allen

Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Bernard E. Harcourt has written a magnum opus. $40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19572-0 2020 696 pages

Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. She draws on Freud, Klein, and Lacan to develop a more realistic strand of psychoanalytic thinking that centers on notions of loss, negativity, ambivalence, and mourning. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19861-5 December 2020 272 pages NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

A Time for Critique

Capitalism on Edge

How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

Edited by Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt

Albena Azmanova

In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, literary and legal scholars reflect on the multiplying contexts and forms of critical discourses and on the social actors and social movements engaged in them.

Capitalism on Edge offers a novel diagnosis of the current moment to reveal that the potential for sweeping transformation must come from an unexpected direction. Albena Azmanova demonstrates that capitalism is not on its deathbed, revolution is not in the cards, and utopianism cannot steer us toward a brighter future.

$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19127-2

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19537-9

$95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19126-5

$90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19536-2

2019 320 pages NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY

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