AESTHETICS
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language Translated by Jody Gladding
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change
Foreword by Rowan Williams
Julia Kristeva
Jason Miller
$20.00 / £14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20332-6
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.
December 2021 112 pages
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20143-8
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20142-1
THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
2021 288 pages 7 illus.
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.
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
Critique of Bored Reason
Looking Through Images
On the Confinement of the Modern Condition
A Phenomenology of Visual Media
Translated by Nils F. Schott Afterword by Andrew Benjamin
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.
Emmanuel Alloa
Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy. $35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18793-0
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18907-1
$145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-18792-3
$140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18906-4
October 2021 408 pages 36 illus.
January 2022 360 pages
COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS
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