The NSSR Bookshelf
Our New School for Social Research faculty carry on our tradition of groundbreaking inquiry. Their books showcase the intellectual breadth of their scholarship as well as the thematic and interdisciplinary variety of their interests and collaborations.
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Dominic Pettman (2020) – Peak Libido: Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire
Terry Williams & Raza Mohammed Khan (2020) – The Vanishing Indian Upper Class Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan
Melissa Monroe (2020) – Medusa Beach and Other Poems
Abou Farman (2020) – On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience
Aaron Jakes (2020) – Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
Nicolas Langlitz (2020) – Chimpanzee Culture Wars
Claire Potter (2020) – Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Democracy
Hugh Raffles (2020) – The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
Ann Stoler (2020) – Thinking with Balibar
Rafi Youatt (2020) – Interspecies Politics: Nature, Borders, States
Alex Aleinikoff (2019) – The Arc of Protection: Reforming the International Refugee Regime
Federico Finchelstein (2020) – A Brief History of Fascist Lies
Duncan Foley (2019) – Growth and Distribution, second edition
Dominic Pettman (2019) – Metagestures
Cinzia Arruzza and Nancy Fraser (2019) – Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
Inessa Medzhibovskaya (2019) – Tolstoy’s On Life
Mark W. Frazier (2019) – The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay
Mark Setterfield (2019) – Heterodox Macroeconomics: Models of Demand, Distribution and Growth
Natasha Lennard (2019) – Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
Terry Willaims (2019) – Le Boogie Woogie: Inside an After-Hours Club
Simon Critchley (2019) – Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Cinzia Arruzza (2018) – A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic
Richard Bernstein (2018) – Why Read Hannah Arendt Now?
Benoit Challand (2018) – The Struggle for Influence in the Middle East: The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance,
Federico Finchelstein (2018) – From Fascism to Populism in History
Nancy Fraser (2018) – Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
Paul Kottman (2018) – The Art of Hegel’s Aesthetics
Natasha Lennard (2018) – Violence, Humans in Dark Times
James Miller (2018) – Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World
James Miller (ed.) (2018) – Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Dmitri Nikulin (2018) – Productive Imagination: Its History, Meaning and Significance
Dmitri Nikulin (2018)- Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity
Claire Potter (coed.) (2017) – Historians on Hamilton
Eugene Thacker (2018) – Infinite Resignation
Terry Williams (2018) — On Ethnography
Andrew Arato (2017) – The Adventures of the Constituent Power: Beyond Revolutions?
Chiara Bottici (2017) – Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique
Simon Critchley (2017) – What We Think About When We Think About Soccer
James Dodd (2017) – Phenomenology, Architecture, and the Built World
Paul Kottman (2017) – Love As Human Freedom
Shannon Mattern (2017) – Code And Clay, Data And Dirt: Five Thousand Years Of Urban Media
Dmitri Nikulin (2017) – The Concept of History
Dominic Pettman (2017) – Creaturely Love
Dominic Pettman (2017) – Sonic Intimacy
Michael Schober (2017) – The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes
Willi Semmler (coed.) (2017) – Sustainable Asset Accumulation and Dynamic Portfolio Decisions
Rachel Sherman (2017) – Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
Howard Steele and Miriam Steele (coeds.) (2017) – Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions
Robin Wagner-Pacifici (2017) – What is an Event?
McKenzie Wark (2017) – General Intellects
Zed Adams (2016)- Giving a Damn
Andrew Arato (2016) — Post Sovereign Constitutional Making: Learning and Legitimacy
Cinzia Arruzza (2016) – Philosophy and Political Power in Antiquity
Richard J. Bernstein (2016) — Ironic Life
Chiara Bottici (2016) – Per tre miti, forse quattro: Romanzo di romanzi
Heather Boushey (2016) – Finding Time
Megan Craig (2016) – Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy
Alice Crary (2016) — Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought
Teresa Ghilarducci (2016)- Rescuing Retirement
Benjamin Lee (2016) – Derivatives and the Wealth of Societies
Dominic Pettman (2016)- Humid, All Too Humid
Dominic Pettman (2016) — Infinite Distraction
Willi Semmler (2016) – Dynamic Modeling, Empirical Macroeconomics, and Finance: Essays in Honor of Willi Semmler
Julia Sonnevend (2016) – Stories Without Borders
Terry Williams (2016) – Harlem Supers
Terry Williams (2016) – Teenage Suicide Notes
Jeremy Varon (2016)- Nuclear Threats
J. M. Bernstein (2015) — Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury
Simon Critchley (2015)- ABC of Impossibility
William Hirst et al. (2015) — A Ten-Year Follow-Up of a Study of Memory for the Attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb Memories and Memories for Flashbulb Events
Aaron Jakes (2015) – A new materialism? Globalization and technology in the age of empire
Elizabeth Kendall (2015) — Balanchine & the Lost Muse: Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer
Willi Semmler, Matthieu Charpe, Carl Chiarella, and Peter Flaschel (2015) — Financial Assets, Debt and Liquidity Crises: A Keynesian Approach
McKenzie Wark (2015) — Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
Terry Williams and Trever B. Milton (2015) — The Con Men: Hustling in New York City
Deva Woodly (2015) — The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Rafi Youatt (2015) — Counting Species: Biodiversity and Global Environmental Politics
Omri Boehm (2014) — Kant’s Critique of Spinoza
Chiara Bottici (2014) — Imaginal Politics
Doris Chang et al. (2014) — Racial/Ethnic Match and Treatment Outcomes for Women with PTSD and Substance Use Disorders Receiving Community-Based Treatment.
Federico Finchelstein (2014) — The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Argentina
Nancy Fraser et al. (2014) — Transnationalizing the Public Sphere
Dmitri Nikulin (2014) — Comedy, Seriously: A Philosophical Study
Janet Roitman (2014) — Anti-Crisis
Willi Semmler & Lucas Bernard (2014) — The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming
Willi Semmler et al. (2014) — Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics, Volume 3: Macroeconomic Activity, Banking and Financial Markets
Mark Setterfield et al. (2014) — After the Great Recession: The Struggle for Economic Recovery and Growth
Anwar Shaikh et al. (2014) — Race, Gender and the Econophysics of Income Distribution in the USA
Jeremy Varon (2014) — The New Life: Jewish Students of Postwar Germany
Cinzia Arruzza (2013) — Dangerous Liaisons: The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism
Richard Bernstein (2013) — Violence: Thinking without Banisters
William Millberg & Deborah Winkler (2013) — Outsourcing Economics: Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development
Laura Frost (2013) — The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and its Discontents
Victoria Hattam et al. (2013) — Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional Order and Change
Virag Molnár (2013) — Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe
Ann Stoler (2013) — Imperial Debris
Ann Stoler (2013) — “Rethinking Colonialism”
McKenzie Wark (2013) — The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century
Abou Farman (2012) — Clerks of the Passage
Carlos Forment et al. (2012) — Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience
Jeffrey Goldfarb (2012) — Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power
Nicolas Langlitz (2012) — Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain
William Millberg and Robert L. Heilbroner (2012) — The Making of Economic Society
Jeremy Safran (2012) — Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies
Christopher Christian (2011) — The Second Century of Psychoanalysis
Julia Ott (2011) — When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy
Dominic Pettman (2011) — Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines
Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy et al. (2011) — Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation?
Willi Semmler (2011) — Asset Prices, Booms and Recessions: Financial Economics from a Dynamic Perspective
Miriam Ticktin (2011) — Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
McKenzie Wark (2011) — The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International
Richard J. Bernstein (2010) — The Pragmatic Turn
Mark Frazier (2010) — Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China
Hugh Raffles (2010) — Insectopedia
Mark Setterfield (2010) — Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth
Andrew Arato (2009) — Constitution Making Under Occupation
James Dodd (2009) — Violence and Phenomenology
Paul Kottman (2009) — Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe
Willi Semmler, Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, and Reiner Franke (2009) — Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy: A Keynesian Perspective
Willi Semmler, Carl Chiarella, Hing Hung, Peter Flaschel (2009) — Business Fluctuations and Long-Phased Cycles in High Order Macrosystems
Mark Setterfield & Giuseppe Fontana (2009) — Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy
Ann Stoler (2009) — Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
Benoit Challand (2008) — Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude
Duncan Foley (2008) — Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
Teresa Ghilarducci (2008) — When I’m Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them
Andreas Kalyvas (2008) — Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt
Inessa Medzhibovskaya (2008) — Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time: A Biography of a Long Conversion, 1845–1885
Willi Semmler (2008) — Topics in Applied Macrodynamic Theory
Jessica Allina-Pisano (2007) — The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in the Black Earth
Simon Critchley (2007) — Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Oz Frankel (2006) — States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States
Jeffrey Goldfarb (2006) — The Politics of Small Things
Eiko Ikegami (2005) — Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture
Andrew Arato (2000) — Civil Society, Constitution, and Legitimacy
Noah Isenberg (1999) — Between Redemption and Doom: The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism
Simon Critchley (1998) — Very Little . . . Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature
Lawrence Hirschfeld (1998) — Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child’s Construction of Human Kinds
Nancy Fraser (1997) — Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition
William Milberg (1992) – The Megacorp and Macrodynamics: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner: Essays in Memory of Alfred Eichner
Duncan Foley (1986) — Understanding Capital: Marx’s Economic Theory
Richard J. Bernstein (1983) — Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis