The New School’s Spring 2025 Semester in Books
New School writers confront pressing social and cultural issues in their published works, including examinations of art and propaganda, the history of civil and human rights, attention and identity, and the relationship of design to reality. Works were published in a range of nonfiction genres, including memoirs and essays. Faculty and staff members also produced a number of compelling works during the fall 2024 semester.
Below is a list of books released during the spring 2025 semester. Discover your next great read.
Spring 2025 Book List
Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West
Jonathan Bach, Global Studies Professor (co-author)
Art and Propaganda During Peronist Argentina
Iliana Cepero, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett
Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy
Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, University Professors of Design and Social Inquiry
Legal Histories of Empire
Jack Jin Gary Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology (co-contributor)
Hello (and goodbye) To All That
Jonathan Liebson, First Year Writing Assistant Professor
The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films
Jim Miller, Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies and Director of Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism
Seeking Attention: 30 Ways of Being Present
Dominic Pettman, University Professor of Media and New Humanities
The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 4: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Mira Siegelberg, Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (co-editor)