COLUMBIA THEMES IN PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL CRITICISM, AND THE ARTS

Lydia Goehr and Gregg M. Horowitz, Editors

ADVISORY BOARD

J. M. Bernstein	Eileen Gillooly
Noël Carroll	Thomas S. Grey
T. J. Clark	Miriam Bratu Hansen
Arthur C. Danto	Robert Hullot-Kentor
Martin Donougho	Michael Kelly
David Frisby	Richard Leppert
Boris Gasparov	Janet Wolff

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 DANIEL HERWITZ, eds.,

The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera

ROBERT HULLOT-KENTOR,

Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno

GIANNI VATTIMO,

Art’s Claim to Truth, edited by Santiago Zabala, translated by Luca D’Isanto

JOHN T. HAMILTON,

Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language

STEFAN JONSSON,

A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions