The Kitchen as Laboratory - Above the Treeline

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The Kitchen as Laboratory
Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking
Edited by César Vega, Job Ubbink,
and Erik van der Linden
MORE THAN FIFTY INTERNATIONAL CHEFS, SCIEN-
TISTS, AND COOKS EXPERIMENT WITH THE PHYSICS
AND CHEMISTRY OF THE IDEAL MEAL.
Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and sci-
entists have only recently begun to anatomize food’s
components, introducing a new science called molecu-
lar gastronomy and a new frontier in the possibilities of
the kitchen. In this global collaboration of essays, chefs,
scientists, and cooks put the innovations of molecular
gastronomy into practice, advancing a culinary hypoth-
esis based on food’s chemical properties and the skilled
use of existing and cutting-edge tools, ingredients, and
techniques. As their experiments unfold, these pioneers
create, and in some cases revamp, dishes that answer spe-
“Behind today’s celebrity chefs and
cific desires, serving up an original encounter with gas-
starred restaurants is a mostly unsung
tronomic practice.
army of dedicated food and science
From the seemingly mundane to the food fantastic, from lovers working to uncover the scientific
grilled cheese sandwiches, pizzas, and soft-boiled eggs principles that make our modern gas-
to sugar glasses and gellified beads, these essays cover tronomical marvels possible. In search-
a range of creations and their history and culture. They ing out thirty-five highly readable and
discuss the significance of an eater’s background and at- often amusing essays by warriors in this
mosphere, the importance of a chef’s methods, and strat- multinational kitchen army, the editors
egies for extracting and concentrating aromas, among of this anthology have accomplished
other intriguing topics. The collection will delight ex- the great service of filling a much-
perts and amateurs alike, investigating how restaurants needed gap in the public’s understand-
rely more on “science-assisted” cooking and recreational ing and appreciation of twenty-first
cooks increasingly explore the chemistry behind their art. century culinary ‘magic.’ Where else
can one have fun pondering the acous-
CÉSAR VEGA holds a Ph.D. in food science and a culinary degree from Le tics of crunchy foods or how to make
Cordon Bleu, and is a senior scientist at Mars Botanical, a division of Mars, Inc.
an ice cream that stretches like a rub-
He has consulted with several avant-garde restaurants on aspects relating to
science-based cooking. ber band?” —Robert Wolke, University
of Pittsburgh Professor Emeritus of
JOB UBBINK is a senior consultant at Food Concept and Physical Design in Chemistry, former columnist for the
Flüh, Switzerland. Trained as a physical chemist and biophysicist, he holds
Washington Post food section, and
more than twelve years of R&D experience in the food industry.
author of What Einstein Told His Cook
ERIK VAN DER LINDEN is professor of physics and the physical chemistry
of foods at Wageningen University. He earned his M.Sc. degree in theoretical
physics and his Ph.D. at Leiden University and was awarded a postdoctoral
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FOOD / SCIENCE
ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE:
PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY
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Neurogastronomy
How the Brain Creates Flavor And Why It Matters
Gordon M. Shepherd
BASED ON THE AUTHOR’S PIONEERING WORK IN THE
FIELD, THIS NEW BOOK ON SMELL FOCUSES ON THE
ROLE OF SMELL IN OUR PERCEPTION OF TASTE AND
THE ENSUING MEDICAL, CULTURAL, AND GASTRO-
NOMIC IMPLICATIONS.
Gordon M. Shepherd, a leading neuroscientist at Yale
University, embarks on an eye-opening trip through the
human brain’s “flavor system,” establishing the parame-
ters of a new field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the be-
lief that humans’ sense of smell diminished as they made
the leap from primate to human, Shepherd contends this
sense, the main element of flavor, is far more powerful
and important than we think.
Shepherd begins with the mechanics of smell, the way
Shepherd’s last book Creating Modern it stimulates the nose as it hits the back of the mouth.
Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s From the food we eat, the brain represents smells as
(Oxford University Press, 2008) was spatial patterns, and out of these, it constructs flavor. He
named the 2010 Outstanding Book in then considers the effect of the flavor system on many
the History of the Neurosciences contemporary social, behavioral, and medical issues. He
analyzes flavor's engagement with the brain regions con-
trolling emotion, food preferences, and cravings, and he
even devotes a section to food’s role in drug addiction
and, building on Proust's iconic tale of the madeleine, its
ability to evoke deep memories. Shepherd discusses the
link between his research and trends in nutrition, dieting,
and obesity, particularly the challenge to eat healthy. He
concludes with human perceptions of smell and flavor
and their insight into the neural basis of consciousness.
Everyone from casual diners and amateur foodies to wine
critics, chefs, scholars, and researchers will be thrilled by
Shepherd's scientific-gastronomic adventures.
GORDON M. SHEPHERD is professor of neurobiology at Yale School
of Medicine. He is the author of Creating Modern Neuroscience: The
Revolutionary 1950s and the third edition of Neurobiology; editor of
The Synaptic Organization of the Brain; and former editor in chief of the
Journal of Neuroscience. Having made important contributions to the
synaptic organization of the brain, his current research focuses on ol-
faction at the level of microcircuits and their construction of the spatial
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SCIENCE
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Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic
A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences
and Contemplative Practice
B. Alan Wallace
A RADICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE MIND,
CULTIVATING SOPHISTICATED OBSERVATIONS OF
MENTAL EVENTS AND STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Renowned Buddhist philosopher B. Alan Wallace reas-
serts the power of shamatha and vipashyana, traditional
Buddhist meditations, to clarify the mind’s role in the
natural world. Raising profound questions about human
nature, free will, and experience versus dogma, Wallace
challenges the claim that consciousness is no more than
an emergent property of the brain with little relation to
universal events. Rather, he maintains that the observer
is essential to measuring quantum systems and that
mental phenomena (however conceived) influence brain
function and behavior.
“Wallace displays courage in raising cen-
Wallace embarks on a two-part mission: to restore and
tral Buddhist themes such as past-life
then transcend human nature. Part one explains the
recall, extrasensory perception, other
value of skepticism in Buddhism and science and the dif-
paranormal abilities, and the realization
ficulty of merging their experiential methods of inquiry.
of emptiness and Buddha nature. In his
Yet Wallace emphasizes that Buddhist views on human
description of the tenets and practices
nature and the possibility of free will frees human nature
of Buddhism, Wallace is a true master.
from the metaphysical constraints of scientific material-
His range and depth of knowledge
ism. He then explores the radical empiricism inspired by
is astounding and his linking of this
William James and applies it to the four schools of Indian
knowledge to the practices and views
Buddhist philosophy and the Great Perfection school of
of science is nearly unique. ” —Arthur
Buddhism. Since Buddhism begins with the assertion
Zajonc, professor of physics, Amherst
that ignorance lies at the root of all suffering and the path
College, author of Catching the Light
to freedom is reached through knowledge, Buddhist prac-
tice can be viewed as a progression from agnosticism (not
knowing) to Gnosticism (knowing), acquired through ex-
ceptional mental health, mindfulness, and introspection.
Wallace discusses these topics in detail, identifying simi-
larities and differences between scientific and Buddhist
understanding, and concludes with an explanation of
shamatha and vipashyana and their potential for fathom-
ing the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness.
B. ALAN WALLACE spent fourteen years as a Buddhist monk,
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Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge, and Buddhism and All Rights: Columbia University Press
Science: Breaking New Ground. A prolific writer who has translated numerous
Tibetan Buddhist texts, he is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara
Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://www.sbinstitute.com).
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Second Read
Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage
Edited by James Marcus and the Staff of the
Columbia Journalism Review
DISTINGUISHED AUTHORS AND JOURNALISTS REVISIT
THE BOOKS THAT SHAPED THEIR PERCEPTIONS,
PROFESSIONAL METHODS, AND CAREERS.
In the Columbia Journalism Review’s Second Read series,
distinguished journalists rediscover the works of report-
age that inspired and informed their writing and careers.
As they revisit these seminal books, contributors address
such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative
flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism,
the need for reporters to question their political assump-
tions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the
temptation to substitute “truthiness” for hard, challeng-
ing fact. Representing a wide range of views, this collec-
tion embodies the diversity and dynamism of nonfiction
featuring...
reporting and offers new perspectives on key works by
such figures as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Rachel
Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan’s
Carson, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The anthology also
The Tribes of America
highlights pivotal moments and movements in journal-
Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe’s
ism while offering rare insight into award-winning writ-
A Journal of the Plague Year
ers and their innovative techniques.
Dale Maharidge on James Agee’s
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
The anthology includes, among many other enlighten-
Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico’s
ing essays, Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan’s The Tribes of
Farewell to Sport
America; Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of
Marla Cone on Rachel Carson’s
the Plague Year; Dale Maharidge on James Agee’s Let Us
Silent Spring
Now Praise Famous Men; Marla Cone on Rachel Carson’s
Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein’s
Silent Spring; Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein’s Keep
Keep Your Head Down
Your Head Down; Ted Conover on Stanley Booth’s The
Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling’s
True Adventures of the Rolling Stones; Jack Shafer on Tom
The Earl of Louisiana
Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Connie Schultz
Ted Conover on Stanley Booth’s
on Michael Herr’s Dispatches; Michael Shapiro on
The True Adventures of
Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day; Douglas McCollam
the Rolling Stones
on John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World; Tom
and many more...
Piazza on Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night; Thomas
Mallon on William Manchester’s The Death of a President;
Miles Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Story
of a Shipwrecked Sailor; David Ulin on Joan Didion’s
Slouching Toward Bethlehem; and Claire Dederer on Betty
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NOVEMBER 224 pages JAMES MARCUS is deputy editor of Harper’s Magazine and author of
LANGUAGE ARTS / LITERARY CRITICISM
Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut. He
has been published in many places, including The Paris Review, The
Nation, the Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Review, and Best American
Essays 2009.
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2011
Edited by Sid Holt for the American
Society of Magazine Editors
With an Introduction by Jim Nelson
THE ANNUAL SAMPLING OF AWARD-WORTHY ESSAYS,
NOW JOINED BY INTERVIEWS WITH THE WRITERS.
The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 will be one of
our richest collections to date, full of award-winning
pieces covering the year’s most intriguing events. Some
essays for the anthology created their own controversies,
such as Michael Hastings’s The Runaway General, which
forced the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal
within days of its being published in Rolling Stone; or
Jane Mayer’s Covert Operations (The New Yorker), which
exposed the Koch brothers’ plans against a Barack Obama
presidency and turned the duo into a powerful symbol of
corporatized politics.
Now Featuring:
This year’s award finalists winners include Scott Horton’s
investigation into inmate suicides at Guantanamo Bay
Interviews with several authors selected
prison (Harper’s Magazine) and Robert F. Worth’s in-
for this anthology, speaking on their
dispensable account of conflict and revolt in the Middle
craft, the use of sources, courting con-
East (The New York Times Magazine). It will feature an
troversy, and the challenges of jour-
entertaining array of profiles, criticism, and cultural com-
nalistic writing in an age of extreme
mentary, such as Christopher Hitchens’s wry take on
partisanship and internet news.
the politics of cancer (Vanity Fair); Jonathan Van Meter’s
eye-opening portrait of Joan Rivers and her transgres-
sive comedic genius (New York Magazine); and Jonah
Weiner’s extraordinary musical biography of Kanye West,
assembled from the artist’s tweets and blog (Slate). John
Donvan and Caren Zucker’s account of the world’s first
autism case in the Atlantic rounds out the volume, along
with a selection of fiction, such as Paul Theroux’s tale in
the Virginia Quarterly Review of a madman art collector
who acquires only to destroy the things he loves.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGAZINE EDITORS is the principal or-
ganization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME spon-
sors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism.
JIM NELSON has been editor in chief of GQ since 2003, a publication
known as much for the quality of its literary journalism as for its trend-
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setting fashion advice. Under his direction, the magazine has been DECEMBER
nominated for twenty-six National Magazine Awards and has won for
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The Severed Head
Capital Visions
Julia Kristeva
Translated by Jody Gladding
THE INVENTIVE THEORIST AND CRITIC WEAVES A
HISTORY OF HUMAN CULTURE AROUND THE ART OF
DECAPITATION.
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre, The
Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of sev-
ered heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.
Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia
Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the head
as symbol and metaphor, as religious object and physical
fact, further developing a critical theme in her work—the
power of horror—and the potential for the face to provide
an experience of the sacred.
Kristeva considers the head as saintly artifact and as the
locus of thought, seeking a keener understanding of the
violence and desire that drives us to sever—and in some
cases keep—such a potent object. Her study stretches
back to 6,000 B.C.E. and humans’ early decoration of
and cultlike devotion to skulls, and it follows the depic-
tion or presence of heads in the Medusa myth; the man-
dylion of Laon (a holy relic in which the face of a saint
appears on a piece of cloth); the biblical story of John the
Baptist and his counterpart, Salome; tales of the guillo-
tine; modern murder mysteries; and even in the fight for
and against capital punishment. Kristeva interprets these
“capital visions” through the lens of psychoanalysis, draw-
ing infinite connections between their manifestation and
sacred experience and very much affirming the possibil-
ity of the sacred, even in an era of “faceless” interaction.
Opale JUUnLivIAer sKitRéI SdTeE PVaAr iiss VpIrIo afnedss othre o af ultinhgour iostfi cmsa anty tahce-
Agence claimed works and novels, including This Incredible
O: Need to Believe, Strangers to Ourselves, New Maladies
OT of the Soul, Time and Sense, Hannah Arendt, and
H
P
Melanie Klein. She is the recipient of the Hannah
Arendt Prize for Political Thought and the Holberg
International Memorial Prize.
$34.50 / £24.00 cloth 978-0-231-15720-9 JODY GLADDING is a poet and has translated more than twenty works
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JANUARY 176 pages / 18 photographs
PHILOSOPHY / ART HISTORY
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL
THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
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Mute Speech
Literature, Critical Theory, and Politics
Jacques Rancière
Introduction by Gabriel Rockhill and translated by James Swenson
Throughout his career, shaped by a notable collaboration
with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière has continually
unsettled political discourse, particularly by examining
its relationship to aesthetics. Like Michel Foucault, he
broke with many of his predecessors to upend dominant
twentieth-century historical narratives and critical theo-
ries. Often overlooked in the canon of his works, Mute
Speech contains the critical seeds of Rancière's most pro-
vocative assertions, challenging the intellectual orthodoxy
that had come to define the nature of art and representa-
tion.
Arguing that art is neither inherently political nor colo-
nized by politics, Rancière casts art and politics as “dis-
tributions of the sensible,” or configurations of what are
visible and invisible in experience. Through an original
reinterpretation of German romanticism and phenom-
enology, especially the work of its most prominent fig-
ures, Kant and Hegel, and engaging with the thought
of Germaine de Staël, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice
Blanchot, among others, Rancière reevaluates concep-
tions of art in various decades, from the classical age
of representation to the modern, anti-representational
turn and its promise of political transformation. Rather
than dwell on modernity’s “crisis of representation,” he
celebrates the triumph of realism in modern aesthetics,
which for him is the true representative art. Opening
radical new vistas onto the history of art and philosophy,
Rancière pioneers a theory of aesthetics in which demo-
cratic politics constitute the essence of art.
JACQUES RANCIÈRE (b. 1940) is professor of philosophy emeritus at
the University of Paris. Among his major works translated into English
are The Future of the Image; The Politics of Aesthetics, The Philosopher
and His Poor; The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing; Aesthetics
and Its Discontents; Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy; and The
Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation.
GABRIEL ROCKHILL is assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova
University and program director at the Collège International de
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NOVEMBER 208 pages
PHILOSOPHY
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Refiguring the Spiritual Joseph Beuys, Matthew Barney, James
Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy are artists
who differ in style, yet they all defy the
Mark C. Taylor
trends that have diminished art’s potential
in recent decades. They understand that
“Taylor’s Refiguring the Spiritual is in many
art is a transformative practice drawing
ways a fascinating and compelling book
inspiration directly and indirectly from
that, like so much of his previous work,
ancient and modern, Eastern and Western
bursts genres. It functions ‘outside of the
forms of spirituality.
box’ of the more familiar, university press
publication.” —Carl Raschke, professor of
For Beuys, anthroposophy, alchemy, and
religious studies, University of Denver, and
shamanism drive his multimedia pre-
senior editor, Journal for Cultural
sentations; for Barney and Goldsworthy,
and Religious Theory
Celtic mythology informs their art; and
for Turrell, Quakerism and Hopi myths
Mark C. Taylor provocatively claims that
and rituals power his vision. Eluding tra-
contemporary art has lost its way. With
ditional genres and classifications, their
the art market now mirroring the art of fi-
work combines spiritually inspired styles
nance, many artists create works solely for
and techniques with material reality, cre-
the purpose of luring investors and inspir-
ating works that resist merging space into
ing trade among hedge funds and private
cyberspace in ways that overwhelm local
equity firms. When art becomes a finan-
contexts with global landscapes.
cial instrument, grounded in nothing but
itself, it loses its critical edge. Its commod-
MARK C. TAYLOR is professor of
itization, corporatization, and financializa-
religion, chair of the Department
tion rob us of necessary perspective.
of Religion, and codirector of the
Institute for Religion, Culture, and
Public Life at Columbia University.
He is the author of Crisis on
Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges
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and Universities; Field Notes from Elsewhere:
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JANUARY 272 pages Reflections on Dying and Living; and After God.
PHILOSOPHY / RELIGION
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
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Hermeneutic Communism
From Heidegger to Marx
Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala
REMAKING A POLITICAL MOVEMENT FOR EFFECTIVE
ACTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Communism no longer represents an appealing alterna-
tive to capitalism, having lost much of its political clout
and theoretical power. In its original Marxist formulation,
communism promised an ideal of development, but only
through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist
governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy
has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall.
Separating communism from its metaphysical founda-
tions, which include an abiding faith in the immutable
laws of history and an almost holy conception of the
proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast
Marx’s theories at a time when capitalism’s metaphysi-
“Hermeneutic Communism is one of
cal moorings—in technology, empire, and industrializa-
those rare books that seamlessly com-
tion—are buckling. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
bines postmetaphysical philosophy
call for a return of the revolutionary left, but Vattimo and
and political practice, the task of a
Zabala fear this would lead only to more violence and
meticulous ontological interpretation
failed political policy. Instead, they adopt an antifounda-
and decisive revolutionary action, the
tionalist stance, drawn from the hermeneutical thought
critique of intellectual hegemony and a
of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty,
positive, creative thought. Zabala and
that relies on interpretation rather than truth and is more
Vattimo, unlike Hardt and Negri, do not
flexible in different contexts. “Hermeneutic communism”
offer their readers a ready-made politi-
leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call
cal ontology but allow radical politics
for revolution. It motivates a resistance to capitalism’s in-
to germinate from each singular and
equalities, yet intervenes against violence and authoritari-
concrete act of interpretation. The most
anism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth.
significant event of twenty-first century
Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala’s well-known weakening
philosophy!” —Michael Marder, author
of religion, Hermeneutic Communism realizes the fully
of Groundless Existence: The Political
transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist
Ontology of Carl Schmitt
thought.
GIANNI VATTIMO is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University
of Turin and a member of the European Parliament. His books in English
include After Christianity, Nihilism and Emancipation, The Future of
Religion, with Richard Rorty, Dialogue with Nietzsche, Art’s Claim to
Truth, After the Death of God, with John Caputo, Not Being God, Truth
or Faith, with Rene Girard, A Farewell to Truth, and The Vocation and
Responsibility of the Philosopher.
SANTIAGO ZABALA is ICREA Research Professor at the University
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of Barcelona. He is the author of The Remains of Being and The
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Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy and editor of Art’s Claim to
OCTOBER 224 pages
Truth (2008). PHILOSPHY / POLITICAL SCIENCE
INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION,
POLITICS, AND CULTURE
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Until the Fires Stopped Burning
9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences
of Survivors and Witnesses
Charles B. Strozier
PUBLISHED ON THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11, A
PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF THE ATTACK AND ITS
PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA.
A history professor and practicing psychoanalyst in
Manhattan, Charles B. Strozier lost a number of students
in the tragedy of 9/11, and afterward, he accepted many
survivors into his care. The grief he encountered felt in
some ways familiar, yet in other ways unprecedented,
compelling him to investigate the event more deeply
so its special characteristics could be better understood.
Featuring the testimony of survivors, bystanders, specta-
tors, and victim’s friends and family members, Strozier
conducts a fascinating study of comparative disaster,
apocalyptic experience, unnatural death, and the psycho-
“This is the only work on 9/11 that logical endurance of trauma.
describes people's experience in depth
and at the same time provides us with
While many 9/11 books share the memories of witnesses,
a broad sense of the human impact
Strozier’s text interprets and contextualizes these impres-
of the whole event.” —Robert Lifton,
sions, enriching the larger literature on the event and its
author of Death in Life: Survivors of
legacy. He also enhances his narrative with a historical-
Hiroshima and Witness to an
ly-grounded comparison of 9/11 and the devastation of
Extreme Century: A Memoir
Hiroshima, Auschwitz, and Katrina, among other exam-
ples, which scholars have deemed a “new species of trou-
“This book offers a way of understand-
ble” in the world. He organizes his study around “zones
ing—of taking the measure of, coming
of sadness” in New York, powerfully evoking the multiple
to terms with—a thing that probably
places and spaces in which his respondents confronted
does not lend itself to any other kind
9/11, and he remains sensitive to the personal, social, and
of telling. That’s why it is special. It
cultural differences of these encounters. Most important,
issues from a richly layered mind.” —Kai
he theoretically distinguishes between 9/11 as an apoca-
Erikson, chair of American studies at
lyptic event, which he affirms it is not (rather it is a mon-
Yale University, editor of the Yale Review,
umental event), and 9/11 as an apocalyptic experience, a
and author of A New Species of Trouble
crucial distinction in understanding the act’s affect on
American life.
mpton
Co CHARLES B. STROZIER, a historian and psychoana-
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SEPTEMBER 304 pages temporary violence and what it means to survive; the psychology of
PSYCHOLOGY fundamentalism; self psychology and psychoanalysis; and themes
All Rights except Audio Rights: Columbia University
in American history. These include The Fundamentalistl Mindset:
Press; Audio Rights: Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Psychological Perspectives on Religion, Violence, and History and a
psychological study of Abraham Lincoln.
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