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Political Theory
Critique and Praxis
Bernard E. Harcourt Critique on the Couch 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 Edited by Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt Capitalism on Edge How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia 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.
$32.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19127-2 $95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19126-5 2019 320 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
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.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19537-9 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19536-2 2020 272 pages
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL THEORY
Universality and Identity Politics Todd McGowan
This book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Through a wide range of examples in contemporary politics, film, and history, Universality and Identity Politics offers an antidote to the impasses of identity and an inspiring vision of twenty-first-century collective struggle.
$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-19770-0 2020 272 pages
Social Appearances A Philosophy of Display and Prestige Barbara Carnevali Translated by Zakiya Hanafi In this strikingly original book, Barbara Carnevali offers a philosophical examination of the roles that appearances play in social life. While Western metaphysics and morals have predominantly disdained appearances and expelled them from their domain, Carnevali invites us to look at society, ancient to contemporary, as an aesthetic phenomenon. America's Public Philosopher Essays on Social Justice, Economics, Education, and the Future of Democracy John Dewey Edited and with an introduction by Eric Thomas Weber.
John Dewey was America’s greatest public philosopher. This book gathers the clearest and most powerful of Dewey’s public writings and shows how they continue to speak to the challenges we face today. It includes fortysix essays on topics such as democracy in the United States, political power, education, economic justice, science and society, and
$95.00 / £78.00 cloth 978-0-231-19894-3 January 2021 288 pages
Artificial Whiteness Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence Yarden Katz
philosophy and culture.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18707-7 2020 304 pages
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Bringing together theories of whiteness and race in the humanities and social sciences with a deep understanding of the history and practice of science and computing, Artificial Whiteness is an incisive, urgent critique of the uses of AI as a political tool to uphold social hierarchies.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19491-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19490-7 November 2020 354 pages 35 illus.
Subaltern Social Groups A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 Antonio Gramsci Edited and translated by Joseph A. Buttigieg and Marcus E. Green Out of the Dark Night Essays on Decolonization Achille Mbembe
This volume presents the first complete translation of Antonio Gramsci’s notes on the concept of subalternity, including the prison notebook devoted to the theme of subaltern social groups. It includes a critical apparatus that clarifies Gramsci’s history, culture, and sources and contextualizes these ideas against his earlier writings and letters.
$24.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-19039-8 $75.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19038-1 April 2021 256 pages
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Subterranean Fanon An Underground Theory of Radical Change Gavin Arnall
The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even more explosive underground theory of transformation.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19365-8 2020 304 pages In Out of the Dark Night, Achille Mbembe offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community and humanity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about Africa.
$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-16028-5 2020 288 pages
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables B. R. Ambedkar Edited and annotated by Alex George and S. Anand
B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of Untouchability. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, produced in a time when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19585-0 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19584-3 2020 424 pages
Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right CARR Yearbook 2019/2020 Edited by Eviane Leidig In Statu Nascendi Journal of Political Philosophy and International Relations, Volume 3, No. 2 (2020) Piotr Pietrzak
Globally, for the radical right 2019 was a defining year. From national and supranational elections that witnessed a surge in support for radical right parties to transnationally-inspired terrorist attacks in New Zealand, the USA, and Germany, the radical right is becoming an international mainstream phenomenon. The yearbook provides insightful analyses from international scholars, policymakers, and practitioners on the impact of the radical right.
$55.00
paper 978-3-8382-1446-7 2020 480 pages 10 illus.
IBIDEM PRESS
Bodies of Democracy Modes of Embodied Politics Amanda Machin
Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation, and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics but also the generative subjects of democracy.
$110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-3-8376-4923-9 January 2021 200 pages
TRANSCRIPT PUBLISHING
In Statu Nascendi is a peer-reviewed journal containing original academic research dedicated to political philosophy, cultural studies, international relations theory, foreign policy, and the political decision-making process.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8382-1469-6 October 2020 232 pages
IBIDEM PRESS
Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left Recasting Leftist Imagination Edited by Robert Latham, A. T. Kingsmith, Julian von Bargen, and Niko Block
This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.
$35.00
paper 978-1-7736-3229-2 2020 285 pages
