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Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts


Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts presents monographs, essay collections, and short books on philosophy and aesthetic theory. It aims to publish books that show the ability of the arts to stimulate critical reflection on modern and contemporary social, political, and cultural life. Art is not now, if it ever was, a realm of human activity independent of the complex realities of social organization and change, political authority and antagonism, cultural domination and resistance. The possibilities of critical thought embedded in the arts are most fruitfully expressed when addressed to readers across the various fields of social and humanistic inquiry. The idea of philosophy in the series’ title ought to be understood, therefore, to embrace forms of discussion that begin where mere academic expertise exhausts itself, where the rules of social, political, and cultural practice are both affirmed and challenged, and where new thinking takes place. The series does not privilege any particular art, nor does it ask for the arts to be mutually isolated. The series encourages writing from the many fields of thoughtful and critical inquiry.

Lydia Goehr and Gregg M. Horowitz, editors

Advisory Board: Carolyn Abbate, J. M. Bernstein, Eve Blau, T. J. Clark, Arthur C. Danto, John Hyman, Michael Kelly, and Paul Kottman

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Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism
Stefan Jonsson

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 352 pages , October 2013
ISBN: 978-0-231-16478-8


Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism
Ewa Ziarek

Paper, $29.50 / £20.50 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0-231-16149-7


Cloth, $89.50 / £62.00 288 pages , October 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-16148-0


A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art
Michael Kelly

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 272 pages , May 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15292-1


Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media
Boris Groys; Translated by Carsten Strathausen

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 232 pages , May 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-14618-0


Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global Context
Robyn Ferrell

Cloth, $50.00 / £34.50 192 pages , March 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-14880-1


Afterness: Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Gerhard Richter

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 272 pages , October 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15770-4


Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory
Gail Day

Cloth, $55.00 / £38.00 320 pages , December 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14938-9


Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Whitney Davis

Cloth, $45.00 / £30.95 368 pages , August 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14690-6


Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment
Herbert Molderings; translated by John Brogden

Cloth, $27.50 / £19.00 240 pages , May 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14762-0


The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism
Joseph Margolis

Cloth, $35.00 / £24.00 232 pages , May 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-14728-6