Columbia Press: 2357 books
The Generation of Postmemory
Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection...
Weimar Cinema
An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars. Encompassing early gangster pictures and science fiction, avant-garde and fantasy films, sexual intrigues...
Critical Models
Interventions and Catchwords
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2005
Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works — Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the...
Doing Aesthetics with Arendt
How to See Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter...
Moved by the Past
Discontinuity and Historical Mutation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this...
Film and Stereotype
A Challenge for Cinema and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliché, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity in cinema. Whether it's the high-noon showdown or the last-minute rescue, a lonely woman standing in the window or two lovers...
Afterness
Figures of Following in Modern Thought and Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Gerhard Richter's groundbreaking study argues that the concept of "afterness" is a key figure in the thought and aesthetics of modernity. It pursues questions such as: What does it mean for something to "follow" something else? Does that which follows mark a clear break with what...
Action, Art, History
Engagements with Arthur C. Danto
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Arthur C. Danto is unique among philosophers for the breadth of his philosophical mind, his eloquent writing style, and the generous spirit embodied in all his work. Any collection of essays on his philosophy has to engage him on all these levels, because this is how he has always engaged the world,...
Spirals
The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the twentieth century. Juxtaposing the work of writers and artists—including W. B. Yeats and Vladimir Tatlin, James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp,...
Head Cases
Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which creative...
The Politics of Being
The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Martin Heidegger's ties to Nazism have tarnished his stature as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The publication of the Black Notebooks in 2014, which revealed the full extent of Heidegger's anti-Semitism and enduring sympathy for National Socialism, only inflamed the controversy....
On Slowness
Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Speed is an obvious facet of contemporary society, whereas slowness has often been dismissed as conservative and antimodern. Challenging a long tradition of thought, Lutz Koepnick instead proposes we understand slowness as a strategy of the contemporary—a decidedly modern practice that gazes firmly...
Creaturely Poetics
Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Simone Weil once wrote that "the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence," establishing a relationship between vulnerability, beauty, and existence transcending the separation of species. Her conception of a radical ethics and aesthetics...
by Hermann Kappelhoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein...