Gilligan, Carol In a Human Voice Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time. Forty years later, Gilligan returns to the…

Merav Roth A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature: Reading the Reader (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series) 1st Edition What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature …

William Egginton Alejandro Jodorowsky: Filmmaker and Philosopher Description Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 95 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed and random, William Egg…

Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on effective altrusism, engaged Buddhism, and how to build a better world ABOUT THE BUDDHIST AND THE ETHICIST Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare…

Peter Brooks (Yale) Seduced by story: The use and abuse of narrative Chosen by New York Magazine/Vulture as a Best Book of 2022 “There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty y…

Daniel C. Dennett I've been thinking Description "How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement." —Richard Dawkins A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C. Dennett. Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cogn…

Christopher Bollas Conversations Transcript erratum: The director of the film “Zone of Interest” is Jonathan Glazer. Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire. The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked: 'Who is speaking? To whom? About what? And why now?'…

"Do you know my mom?" The court-appointed monitor says that's off limits. In this episode, Anna (pseudonym) tells her story. Her son is 1yo, in diapers, when the police come to arrest her, while she attempts to contact her dealer for drugs before prison. From there, she loses custody of her son, enters treatment, and tries to re-gain contact with h…

Howard Kirschenbaum (Rochester) The life and work of Carl Rogers Twenty years after his death, PCCS Books celebrates the life and work of Carl Rogers with the long-awaited second edition of the much-acclaimed biography by Howard Kirschenbaum, On Becoming Carl Rogers. This completely re-written and re-titled edition extends to over 700 pages and inc…

Lauren Levine Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis Note: I had planned to interview Dr. Levine about her book. Leading up to the date we had agreed on, I was struggling with what to talk to her about. Timothy Williamson notes the gladitorial or adversarial nature of philosophical discussion. I certainly had some critical c…

Thoughts on a degree-granting "program" at BU, called "Mental health counseling and behavioral medicine." I took some classes there but eventually quit because it was so ridiculous. What is "mental health counseling"? U.S. states wanted to regulate who could become a psychotherapist, and, given the incredible demand, a variety of academic departmen…

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (Cato Institute) Crossing: A Transgender Memoir A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year “I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am.” Once a golden b…

Alex Byrne (MIT) Trouble with gender: Sex facts, gender fictions Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the categories ‘male’ and ‘female’. But gender ide…

Slavoj Žižek (University of London, New York University, University of Ljubljana) Freedom: A Disease Without Cure We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and…

Bence Nanay (Antwerp) Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand many of the most puzzling features of percepti…

Clancy Martin (University of Missouri in Kansas City; Ashoka University in Delhi, India) How not to kill yourself: A portrait of the suicidal mind. FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines why the thought of death is so compu…

Lorraine Daston (Committee on Social Thought U. Chicago, Max Planck Institute, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study) Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures) A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, t…

Wendy Brown (Princeton) Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values) One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading―and confounding―political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism’s devaluations of both knowle…

Timothy Williamson (Oxford, Yale) Philosophical method: A very short introduction From thought experiments, to deduction, to theories, this Very Short Introduction will cause you to totally rethink what philosophy is. Assuming no previous knowledge of philosophy, this is a highly accesible account of how modern philosophers think and work Presents …

Clara E. Mattei (New School) The capital order: How economists invented austerity and paved the way to Fascism A Financial Times Best Book of the Year “A must-read, with key lessons for the future.”—Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have…

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (Cato Institute) Beyond positivism, behaviorism, and neoinstitutionalism in economics A penetrating analysis from one of the defining voices of contemporary economics. In Beyond Positivism, Behaviorism, and Neoinstitutionalism in Economics, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey zeroes in on the authoritarian cast of recent economics, ar…

Elijah Anderson Black in White Space The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life Elijah Anderson From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a …

Tommie Shelby (Harvard) The idea of prison abolition An incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and senten…

Lewis R. Gordon (UConn) Fear of black consciousness Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the histor…

Martha C. Nussbaum (U Chicago) Justice for animals: Our collective responsibility A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat …

Karin de Boer (University of Leuven, Belgium) Kant's reform of metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason reconsidered Scholarly debates on the Critique of Pure Reason have largely been shaped by epistemological questions. Challenging this prevailing trend, Kant's Reform of Metaphysics is the first book-length study to interpret Kant's Critique in vi…

Nancy Fraser (New School for Social Research) Cannibal capitalism: How our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet and what we can do about it A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of …

Barry A. Farber (Columbia, Teacher's College), Jessica Suzuki (private practice, NYC), and Daisy Ort (Columbia, Teacher's College) Understanding and enhancing positive regard in psychotherapy: Carl Rogers and beyond The therapeutic relationship, more than any particular technique or intervention, is the key to therapeutic success. Positive regard i…

Paula Gottlieb (Wisconsin) Aristotle's ethics: Nichomachean and Eudemian themes An examination of the philosophical themes presented in Aristotle's Nicomachean and Eudemian Ethics. Topics include happiness, the voluntary and choice, the doctrine of the mean, particular virtues of character and temperamental means, virtues of thought, akrasia, pleas…

Graham Harman (Southern California Institute of Architecture) Architecture and objects Architecture and Objects thinks through object-oriented ontology ("Triple-O")—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function. By the founder of Triple-O, it deepens the exchange…

Stephen A. Marglin (Harvard) Raising Keynes: A twenty-first-century general theory Back to the future: a heterodox economist rewrites Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money to serve as the basis for a macroeconomics for the twenty-first century. John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money was the most…

Claudia Melica (Sapienza Università di Roma) The Owl's flight: Hegel's legacy to contemporary philosophy co-editors: Stefania Achella (Chieti-Pescara), Francesca Iannelli (Roma Tre), Gabriella Baptist (Cagliari), Serena Feloj (Pavia), and Fiorinda Li Vigni (Italian Institute for Philosophic Studies) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110709278 This book p…

Nicole Iturriaga (UC Irvine) Exhuming violent histories: Forensics, memory, and rewriting Spain's past Many years after the fall of Franco’s regime, Spanish human rights activists have turned to new methods to keep the memory of state terror alive. By excavating mass graves, exhuming remains, and employing forensic analysis and DNA testing, they se…

Sheryl Luna (poet) Magnificent errors Magnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope. In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and a…

Terry Pinkard (Georgetown) Practice, power and forms of life: Sartre's appropriation of Hegel and Marx Philosopher Terry Pinkard revisits Sartre’s later work, illuminating a pivotal stance in Sartre’s understanding of freedom and communal action. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, released to great fanfare in 1960, has since then re…

Anne E. Parsons (UNC Greensboro) From asylum to prison: Deinstitutionalization and the rise of mass incarceration after 1945 To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, …

David Charles (Yale) The undivided self: Aristotle and the 'mind-body' problem Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire and action, developing his own account of these phenomena and their interconnection. The aim of this book is to gain a philosophical understanding of his views and to examine how…

Brad Reedy (Evoke Therapy Programs) The audacity to be you: learning to love your horrible, rotten self Expanding on his first book (The journey of the heroic parent) Reedy discusses how all our relationships are connected to the relationship we have with ourselves. He shows how the foundation for intimacy with partners, our ability to parent effec…

Andrea Righi (Miami University) The other side of the digital: The sacrificial economy of new media A necessary, rich new examination of how the wired world affects our humanity Andrea Righi deconstructs contradictions inherent in our digital world, examining how ideas of knowledge, desire, writing, temporality, and the woman are being reconfigured…

Richard Frankel (Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis) and Victor J. Krebs (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and VJK Curaduria Filosofica) Human virtuality and digital life: Philosophical and psychoanalytic investigations This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our perception of t…

Adriana Alfaro Altamirano (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México [ITAM]) The belief in intuition: Individuality and authority in Henri Bergson and Max Scheler Within the Western tradition, it was the philosophers Henri Bergson and Max Scheler who laid out and explored the nonrational power of "intuition" at work in human beings that plays a key …

Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA) Freedom, resentment and the metaphysics of morals An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson’s influential “Freedom and Resentment.” P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment” is one of the most influential in modern moral phil…

Owen Flanagan (Duke) How to do things with emotions: The morality of anger and shame across cultures An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions—and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shame. The world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that …

Alice Jardine (Harvard) At the risk of thinking: An Intellectual biography of Julia Kristeva At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Kristeva's work to a broader readership by connecting Kristeva's personal journey, from her childhood in Communist …

Mark Epstein M.D. (private practice, NYC) The zen of therapy: Uncovering a hidden kindness in life “A warm, profound and cleareyed memoir. . . this wise and sympathetic book’s lingering effect is as a reminder that a deeper and more companionable way of life lurks behind our self-serious stories."—Oliver Burkeman, New York Times Book Review A remar…

William Miller (New Mexico) On second thought: How ambivalence shapes your life: From the founder of Motivational Interviewing The rich inner world of a human being is far more complex than either/or. You can love and hate, want to go and want to stay, feel both joy and sadness. Psychologist William Miller—one of the world's leading experts on the …

Jon Mills (Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, Adler Graduate Professional School, and private practice Toronto) Debating relational psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his critics In Debating Relational Psychoanalysis, Jon Mills provides an historical record of the debates that had taken place for nearly two decades on his critiqu…

Amy Schwartz Cooney (NYU, National Institute for the Psychotherapies [NIP], Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and private practice in NYC) and Rachel Sopher (NIP, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and private practice in NYC). Vitalization in psychoanalysis: Perspectives on being and becoming In Vitalization in Psychoanalysis, Schwartz Cooney and Sopher develop…

Ronald Beiner (Toronto) Dangerous minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the return of the Far Right Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried commun…

Christos Tombras (Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, UK) Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan’s post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a conceptual bridging …